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Boots and sunnies on, sandwiches packed, clipboards at the ready… GWCT’s Advisors are out and about and busier than ever with biodiversity audits!
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“Good commercial farming can work hand in hand with nature”, reiterated The Earl of Caithness, as he challenged the idea of designating wild belts, the subject of an amendment to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill.
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It’s very welcome to see Defra develop the concept of Nature Markets in its recently released report Nature Markets Framework. As the Agricultural Transition Period progresses and direct support payments drop away, it’s vital for farms to assess alternative income streams.
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Supplementary feeding has become a widespread management tool for declining farmland birds. In the countryside in late winter there is often not enough natural seed food, which causes a hungry gap between February and April when lots of birds die of starvation.
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It will come as a welcome relief to the farming industry that Defra’s announcement on the 26th of January finally puts a significant amount of detail into the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) tier of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme.
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There were some welcome announcements in Mark Spencer’s speech to the Oxford Farming Conference, primarily in Defra’s acknowledgement that many of the costs associated with Countryside Stewardship have increased dramatically in recent years. However, it remains incredibly frustrating that farmers were once again left with only promises for future clarity on the new Environmental Land Management Scheme.
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This event will highlight to landowners and land managers the financial and other benefits that trees and woodlands can provide; demonstrate some of the key considerations around creating, protecting and managing woodlands and highlight the range of support and funding available.
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That hedges are good for wildlife & the character of our countryside is already well recognised. However, few appreciate that their linear, three-dimensional structure also means they can capture carbon at twice the rate of woodland.
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Meet the farmers of the Chalke Valley, Wiltshire to find out what they are doing to conserve their rare and precious chalk stream. Andrew, Ben and Matthew are members of the Chalke Valley Farmer Cluster and also the pioneering Environmental Farmers Group (EFG), supported by the GWCT.
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