Blogs

A new paper from the GWCT’s Head of Farmland Ecology, Professor John Holland, has been published in the journal Insects, discussing Conservation Biological Control – a component of integrated pest management that allows more sustainable farming, using insects as natural predator control to reduce the reliance on expensive and potentially damaging pesticides.

Manuel Püttmanns, PhD candidate at the University of Göttingen, Germany, writes about his work with skylark chicks, partially funded by the Dick Potts Legacy Fund.  

We respond to a recent piece in The Guardian concerning insect declines by referencing findings from the Sussex Study, one of the most detailed and longest running studies of its type in the world.

The EU has now extended the ban on the use of neonicotinoid insecticides to all field crops which includes cereals and sugar beet. John Holland looks at some alternatives.

With New Zealand’s dairy farmers currently getting a lot of stick about their impact on the environment and especially water quality. John Holland asks who should pay for environmental protection?