Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust's Chief Executive, Dr. Gordon McGlone will feature on BBC Radio 4's Farming Today programme at 5.45am on Saturday 23rd January.

His views on badgers and bovine TB form part of the programme's week-long feature on the debate and the vaccine trials that are being carried out by Defra this year in two locations in Gloucestershire....full article

Living Seas, The Wildlife Trusts’ vision for the UK’s marine environment – where wildlife thrives from the depths of the ocean to the coastal shallows; where rocky reefs are bursting with brightly coloured fish, corals and sponges, and dolphins and seals dart among the waves – is launched today in the House of Commons.

The launch follows the passing, in November, of the Marine and Coastal Access Act (MCAA), for which The Wildlife Trusts campaigned for nearly a decade. The challenge for the next five years is to ensure the Act is effectively implemented – that urgent action is taken to turn the UK’s over-fished, over-exploited, and currently under-protected waters back into a thriving marine environment. The W...full article

by Rosie Woolley
Community Education Officer

The great thing about being at home and snowed in is that you can watch the birds from your window and what a spectacle they have put on for us!

The Trust offices re-opened today and we have had quite a few calls enquiring about how to provide for garden birds and also to identify unusual birds that have not been seen before.

Several of these I could identify immediately as I'd been watching them myself this past week - the fieldfare.

Even in my small urban garden, I have had a mass invasion of unusual birds: 15 fieldfares and 7 redwings, who have stayed around all week. They are going wild for the Cotoneaster berries on ...full article

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is very sad to learn of the death of its Patron, Lady Philippa Scott.

Lady Scott, 91, was honorary director of the WWT founded by her late husband, Sir Peter Scott, who also founded Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, almost 50 years ago in 1961.

"The Scott partnership put conservation on the map, at a time when conservation was not a word that most people understood."
Sir David Attenborough

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Photo by WWT...full article

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust Offices will remain closed until Monday, 11th January due to the icy road conditions throughout the county. This website will be kept updated with any further information....full article

Stephanie Hilborne, chief executive of The Wildlife Trusts, of which Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is a local partner, has been awarded an OBE for services to nature conservation in the new year honours list.

Stephanie was appointed as The Wildlife Trusts’ chief executive in 2004 after championing the cause for six years as director of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. Since then she has led a radical overhaul of the way the organisation works on a collective level and has been instrumental in uniting all 47 local Wildlife Trusts behind their vision of A Living Landscape.

Stephanie committed herself to conservation as a teenager and secured a first class BSc in Biology at Bristol University, and an...full article