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  • Defra-approved 10-year Wildlife Plot mix will help farmers make space for nature

    Defra-approved 10-year Wildlife Plot mix will help farmers make space for nature

    A new wildlife cover crop seed mix, which promises to be one of the best yet for biodiversity, has been developed by scientists at the GWCT. The ‘Wildlife Plot’ mix is available through the government-funded Sustainable Farming Incentive Test and Trial pilot scheme and is expected to be incorporated into the future Environmental Land Management Schemes (ELMS), enabling farmers to make space for nature alongside modern farming.

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  • What will the late harvest mean for partridges?

    What will the late harvest mean for partridges?

    While unseasonal weather has played havoc with this year’s harvest, we should also stop to think of its impact on wildlife, according to experts at the GWCT. The grey partridge, known by conservationists as the ‘barometer of the countryside’, is one species likely to be affected by a dry spring and a dull, wet July and August.

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  • GWSDF Auchnerran prospers through the pandemic

    GWSDF Auchnerran prospers through the pandemic

    The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has published the 2020 annual report for the Game & Wildlife Scottish Demonstration Farm at Auchnerran on Deeside and, despite the pandemic impacting on research and demonstration activity, the farming operation performed well over the year.

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  • BBC Countryfile showcasing farmer-led conservation with visit to Farmer Cluster

    BBC Countryfile showcasing farmer-led conservation with visit to Farmer Cluster

    Leading UK conservation science charity the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust recently invited BBC Countryfile to visit three farms on the Hampshire/Dorset border to see farmer-led conservation in action. The Countryfile episode will be broadcast at 6pm on Sunday 9 May.

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  • UK’s biggest ever farmland bird count shows farmers committing to conservation

    UK’s biggest ever farmland bird count shows farmers committing to conservation

    Participation in an annual nationwide survey of farmland birds has more than doubled. Britain’s farmers and gamekeepers have shown their long-term commitment to conservation alongside productive land-use by completing this year’s GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count in record numbers.

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  • Conservation demonstration project could provide blueprint for farmland wildlife recovery

    Conservation demonstration project could provide blueprint for farmland wildlife recovery

    A new collaboration aims to show how farmers can work together to achieve the recovery of some of the UK’s most threatened farmland bird species, including grey partridge, curlew and lapwing. The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is working with a group of Shropshire farmers to establish the Corvedale Farmland Wildlife Project, which will put farmland conservation techniques based on the Trust’s extensive research into practice on the ground.

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  • Freezing conditions see GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count extended

    Freezing conditions see GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count extended

    Heavy snow and freezing conditions have hampered land managers’ efforts to complete the annual GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count across much of the UK. The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has taken the decision to extend the wildlife survey to enable people to count safely. The event was due to run from 5-14 February, but people can now carry out the count until Sunday 21 February.

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  • Britain’s birds are counting on you: GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count, 5-14 February

    Britain’s birds are counting on you: GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count, 5-14 February

    The 2021 GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count is underway. From this morning (5 February) until Valentine’s Day, farmers and land managers across the country will be picking up their binoculars and heading to a corner of their land to spend 30 minutes counting birds. And it is not too late to get involved.

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  • Land managers play a “crucial role” in UK songbird survival, say organisers of the 2021 GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count, 5-14 February

    Land managers play a “crucial role” in UK songbird survival, say organisers of the 2021 GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count, 5-14 February

    “As custodians of the largest songbird habitat in the country, farmers, land managers and gamekeepers play a crucial role in the survival of the UK’s farmland birds,” says Dr Roger Draycott of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust.

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  • Time to get counting farmland birds in Wales

    Time to get counting farmland birds in Wales

    The GWCT’s Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC) is pleased to announce two events in Wales to help record what farmland birds are present at this time of year before the official count from February 5-14.

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