Blogs
7/10/2021 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters , Farmland Ecology , Farming
Research shows that allocating just 2.2% of a farm to flower-rich habitat more than doubled the density of bumblebee colonies, which in turn boosts productivity.
17/8/2021 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farmland Ecology
This summer is the first season of fieldwork for the Framework project. The project has helped support the setup of 11 Farmer Clusters across various European countries and is looking at the impact of landscape-scale management on farmland wildlife over a five-year period.
10/3/2021 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , Farmland Ecology , Policy
The use of pesticides is hotly debated, but arguments around it are often absolute and lack nuance. The government derogation for farmers to use the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam on sugar beet this year (dependent on evidence of potentially yield threatening levels of pests) created lots of headlines, plenty of outrage and, at the time of writing, 50,597 signatures to reverse the decision.
4/2/2021 in: GWCT News Blog under: Nature , Farmland Ecology , Farming , Policy
The original blog we wrote has, not surprisingly, generated some comment, particularly with respect to the suggestion of a derogation on its use on kale in wild bird cover.