Blogs

SOME 30 arable and livestock farmers learnt about ways of embracing agroforestry at the Trees on Farm event at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) Allerton Project, our research farm at Loddington in Leicestershire.

With the United Kingdom’s farming policy up for discussion this autumn, it is essential that we take stock of what works and what needs improvement. James Swyer explains why.

Last week saw the fourth meeting of an international collaboration working to improve farmland biodiversity across Europe. The GWCT is leading the North Sea Interreg PARTRIDGE project, a collaboration of partners from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK.

Chris Heward provides an update on Phynodderee, a woodcock tagged on the Isle of Man, who has started her autumn migration.

Jeremy Stanton, Strategic Land Development Director at Greenwoods Solicitors, explores the novel and complex subject of sub-marine land registration.

Read our letter to The Times, written in response to a recent piece by Matt Ridley on the Government’s decision to end neonic use entirely.

We are expecting Defra to announce a six-week consultation on their plans to implement new trapping standards on 1^st January 2019. 

Read our letter to The Veterinary Journal, written in response to a recent article on concerns about declines in wildlife and the culling, trapping, poisoning or shooting of animals ‘unnecessarily’. 

OUR head of farmland ecology appeared on BBC Countryfile Autumn Diaries to provide an expert view on the factors surrounding a rise in Lyme disease.

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve received transmission from three of our tagged woodcock, all of which have provided interesting information in one form or another.