Joe Dimbleby

Joe Dimbleby

Joe Dimbleby began working for the GWCT in 2018 and most recently in the role of head of communications. Helping to communicate the incredible breadth of research undertaken by the Trust is a privilege. Prior to that he edited Shooting Times and Sporting Gun magazines and keeps his journalistic hand in reporting on outstanding conservation projects for The Field. Joe likes to practise what he preaches in the garden of the family home in the East Devon countryside. Here he applies the GWCT’s three-legged stool of conservation in miniature: feeding the birds, planting trees and hedges, and controlling the odd grey squirrel.

black grouse

Once present in every county in England, today black grouse are red-listed as a species of high conservation concern. The GWCT has been studying this iconic bird and monitoring numbers…