# Nick Von Westenholz

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ACTIVE ENVIRONMENTALISM: Episode 5 - Environmental Land Management with NFU's Nick von Westenholz

As part of our Active Environmentalism series of events, the NFU's Nick  von Westenholz joined us to discuss Environmental Land Management on  Wednesday 17 February 2021.   In England 69% of our landscape is farmed, under the Environmental Land  Management (ELM) scheme, farmers will be paid for wo…

The Agriculture Bill Explained

Brought to you by the voice of British agriculture, the National Farmers Union, NFU Talk is a brand-new podcast which talks about the hot topics in farming.In this episode, with so many questions around the Agriculture Bill vote and where we go next, we unpick all the with Nick von Westenholz, the …

Does the UK have a trade strategy yet?

In our report Taking back control of trade policy, the Institute argued that the government needed a clear trade strategy. So far, the government’s main goal appears to be to strike as many deals as it can. But recent disagreements in cabinet over whether to open UK markets to Australian agricultu…

Trade and agriculture

The UK has a long history as an agricultural trading nation. For much of our existence, we’ve been a net importer of food, creating a free trade economics 'virtue' out of the necessity of needing to feed ourselves. But calibrating a well-balanced trade policy for agriculture and food is a notorious…

The future of the GWCT

Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, GWCT chairman Sir Jim Paice and new chief executive Nick von Westenholz set out their vision for the charity.

42: Game and Wildlife Conservation with Nick Von Westenholz

We sat down with Nick Von Westenholz CEO of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust and had a conversation about what it has been like for him so far, the challenges facing rural wildlife and landowners and managers in 2025, the function of conservation organisations and plans for GWCT in the futu…

How the BBC got it wrong with pheasants

The BBC's scriptwriters gave Sir David Attenborough duff information on pheasants. The BBC's 2026 wildlife series Secret Garden claimed pheasants eat vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day, with no evidence to back it up. The reverse is true. Best-practice gamebird releasing ach…