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Black grouse in the UK have declined severely in both population size and range over the past 200 years. To measure trends in numbers over time in northern England, our GWCT Uplands team counts lekking males in the spring from vantage points. To measure breeding productivity, we also count black...
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By Joe Stanley Head of Sustainable Farming at the GWCT Allerton Project
The transition from the old Common Agricultural Policy-style farm support payments to a new English system of ‘public money for public goods’ was always going to be a hard sell for the civil servants and politicians tasked w...
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By Georgia Gargett, Scottish Lowlands Placement Student
With the colourful days of autumn behind us, we wrapped up our annual partridge surveys, worm counts and VESS assessments, and set our sights northward.
November brought us to the Scottish Demonstration Farm at Auchnerran, where we helped to...
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By Holly Appleby and Molly Brown, Uplands Research
Black grouse were once numerous and widespread in England, yet over the last 150 years, the population has become increasingly isolated due to low breeding success, habitat fragmentation and changes in landscape configuration. The remaining birds...
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Written by Fiona Torrance, Farmland Biodiversity Advisor and PepsiCo FAB project manager. Thanks to Alistair Green for processing the data.
The PepsiCo FAB (Farming Arable Biodiversity) project launched with ambitious goals. Building on the success of the Interreg PARTRIDGE project, we set out t...
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Hearing protection and clear communication are both essential on shoot day but these two objectives are not mutually exclusive, thanks to Icom UK radios and SWATCOM hearing protection.
Safety is a top priority in any game shooting scenario, but so is clear and reliable communication, especially w...
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Written by Fiona Torrance, Farmland Biodiversity Advisory GWCT Scotland and PepsiCo FAB Project Manager
One aim of the PepsiCo FAB project is to enhance communication between project participants. Over the course of the project, this has been done in a number of ways including regular updates, bu...
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Written by Andrew Clay, Uplands Placement Student
Having grown up on a smallholding further south in the Pennines, as well as having some prior experience grouse beating, I arrived in Teesdale already with a keen interest in upland landscapes. As such, I feel so privileged to be on a placement wh...
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Agroforestry is increasingly recognised as a powerful way to build resilience into modern farming systems. At its core, it is a land‑use approach that integrates trees with crops, livestock or both, blending the principles of agriculture and forestry into a single, multifunctional system. Althoug...
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What better time to optimise your bird identification efforts than now? With the Big Farmland Bird Count in full swing and before spring truly springs it seems appropriate to highlight a key scientific paper that can help focus your efforts.
Produced by GWCT’s Farmland Ecology research department...
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