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The GWCT, after ten years of conservation success, has taken the difficult decision not to renew its lease on Auchnerran Farm when it expires later this year. Our goal was to transform a formerly neglected yet biodiverse landscape into a profitable and sustainable farming operation. Over the last decade this vision has been realised.

The Allerton Project is proud to announce the appointment of Alice Mead as its new Head. With an extensive background in sustainable agriculture and regenerative practices, Alice brings over a decade of hands-on experience helping farmers adapt to environmental changes and implement more sustainable, collaborative approaches.

The innovative new Forage for CH4nge project is investigating methane emissions and environmental impact of UK upland sheep living off a natural forage diet in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

More than 30 bird boxes have been installed on farms across Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire to help swifts returning for the summer find suitable places to nest.

The Environmental Farmers Group has launched its latest and largest equalisation cell including catchments in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Over 170 farmers gathered at the Allerton Project in Leicestershire and Courteenhall Estate in Northamptonshire to launch the new Central England cell of the EFG.

Hope Valley Farmers in Derbyshire and Bradfield Farmers Group in Yorkshire have teamed up to plant 31,000 hedge plants and 1,500 trees on their farms this winter.

The Royal Agricultural Society of England has awarded its 2023 National Agricultural Award to Dr Alastair Leake, the Director of Policy at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust.

In the next fortnight, thousands of farmers and land managers across the UK will be taking half an hour out to observe and record the wild birds that share their land, as the tenth GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count gets under way.

The GWCT’s demonstration farm the Allerton Project is hosting the Leicestershire Good Food Event, a sustainable food and procurement summit, with Good Food Leicestershire, on Thursday 29 September. Organisers are aiming to showcase the benefits for the environment, health and economy of increasing the amount of locally produced, sustainable and healthy food in the county’s schools, hospitals and other public services settings.

Unlocking the environmental and income-generation potential of hedgerows in the British countryside is a step closer as the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust begins piloting the new Hedgerow Carbon Code.