The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has won government backing for all seven projects it submitted to Natural England's species recovery programme. The projects form part of a record £60m investment through Natural England's species recovery initiative, supporting 130 projects benefiting 364 threatened species over the next three years. Woodcock under threatNick von Westenholz, CEO of the Fordingbridge-based trust, said: “Seeing all seven of our projects successfully secure government funding is a major vote of confidence in the GWCT’s research and conservation expertise. “This means GWCT will play a leading role in delivering some of England's most ambitious species recovery projects, contributing to the government's largest-ever investment in recovering threatened wildlife.” Over the past three decades Natural England's species recovery programme has helped protect over 1,000 species and prevented the extinction of at least 35 species.