Blogs
3/5/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , Farmland Ecology , Grey partridge , GWCT Scotland
Over the last few weeks, the Scottish Lowlands team has been busy completing the tenth year of spring grey partridge pair surveys on Balgonie farm.
4/4/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , Farmland Ecology , GWCT Scotland
Historically, Scottish agri-environmental schemes have found it difficult to find a balance between establishing measures for biodiversity and ensuring that the system itself works for farmers.
6/3/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Allerton Project , Policy , Farming
Our Director of Policy and the Allerton Project, Dr Alastair Leake, shares his thoughts on the latest domestic hedgerow regulations.
27/2/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: GWCT Wales , Farming
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has shared scientific evidence with Welsh Government and demonstrated why hedgerows should be included in their 10% woodland requirement, but they have not taken this forward.
20/2/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farmland Ecology , Farming , Grey partridge , GWCT Scotland
It’s been a busy start to the new year for the Scottish Lowlands research team. We’ve spent the last few weeks setting up gamebird feeders to carry out research into supplementary winter feeding for farmland birds.
12/2/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , GWCT Scotland , Policy
Although farmer clusters have been going in England since 2012 and have been immensely successful (with over 100 connected to GWCT now established) unfortunately in Scotland we have not seen this same level realised. So why is this, and what can we do to kick-start their uptake in Scotland?
5/2/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming , Farmland Ecology , Policy , Nature
Many parts of the English rolling landscape are criss-crossed by hedgerows, which if one stops and looks provide an interesting perspective on the history of the landscape being observed.
25/1/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Policy , Farming
On Wednesday 24 January, Teresa Dent CBE was on a panel of experts giving their witness statements about the role of natural capital in the green economy. Teresa joined Minette Batters, President of the NFU, and Judicaelle Hammond, Director of Policy and Advice at the CLA.
23/1/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , GWCT Partners , GWCT Scotland
The GWCT-managed FAB project, with generous support from Pepsico and key input from NatureScot and Scottish Agronomy, aims to demonstrate how productive agriculture does not need to suffer whilst accommodating biodiversity.
4/1/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Policy , Farming
The latest changes to the Sustainable Farming Incentive, launched at the Oxford Farming Conference, are a huge step in the right direction. For many years, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust has argued for those farmers with good existing habitat to be rewarded for their work. Finally, we have this at a fair rate within government policy.