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ENVIRONMENTAL measures farmers are putting in place for birds and bees could be aiding a popular farmland creature, a new study has revealed.

A RECORD-BREAKING number of farmers took part in the fifth successive Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC).

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Cymru has announced that former Welsh rugby union player Sir Gareth Edwards will be the guest speaker at its annual dinner and auction in North Wales this November.

As further cases of avian flu are confirmed, the GWCT offers advice on the implications for game birds.

Defra annouces new plans to reduce the risk of avian flu in England after 28 February.

As the Big Farmland Bird Count is about to begin the GWCT urges farmers to get out and count

Latest information endorsed by Defra, the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland governments and seven leading countryside organisations (BASC, CA,CLA,GFA,GWCT, NGO and SGA

At the GWCT demonstration farm in Leicestershire robin numbers are now at their highest level for 24 years.  

World Soil Day, is the one day in the year that the United Nations asks us all to think about the role of soil in our daily lives.  The Allerton Project was chosen as the UK’s representative study site for SoilCare, a new project that is investigating ways in which soil quality can be improved. 

The Head of Farmland Ecology at the GWCT, has been appointed Honorary Professor of Biology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex.