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Written by Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
Over the course of a series of blogs this year I will be considering the current science on peatland management and restoration with a view to challenging some of the ‘accepted truths’. These are limiting our ability to adapt our approa...
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By Joe Stanley, Head of Sustainable Farming, the Allerton Project
2026 sees the GWCT’s Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC) return to its spiritual home of the Allerton Project, the GWCT’s research and demonstration farm on the Leicestershire-Rutland border, where it was originally launched in 2014. Th...
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By Joe Stanley, Head of Sustainable Farming, the Allerton Project
2026 sees the GWCT’s Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC) return to its spiritual home of the Allerton Project, the GWCT’s research and demonstration farm on the Leicestershire-Rutland border, where it was originally launched in 2014. Th...
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Written by Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer (England)
I imagine that many of our blog readers are countryside dwellers (but if you are not, please keep reading!). Like me, they were brought up in the countryside and (perhaps like me after a brief spell chasing the pot of gold at the end of the ...
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Experts believe we can stop wild salmon from going extinct in our rivers – but we need to act now and we need to work together on a catchment scale.
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) and others have been monitoring wild Atlantic salmon numbers on the River Frome in Dorset for more...
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Written by Jayna Connelly, Science Communicator
Where do birds live? Many still imagine robins in hedgerows or owls in hollow trunks. But waders, gamebirds, warblers, buntings, pipits, chats, larks, wagtails, nightjars, waterfowl, gulls, terns, even raptors like short‑eared owls - all of them are...
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Open Farm Sunday has been taking place up and down the country in June every year since 2006. Managed by LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming), the day provides an opportunity for farmers to share their fabulous work with all ages, by opening their farms to the general public, and showcasing the...
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The not so common snipe?
The common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) has long fascinated ornithologists for its cryptic plumage, zig-zag flight and this haunting “drumming” display. Yet for all its charisma, the snipe’s migration ecology remains surprisingly under-studied compared to other waders. R...
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By Juliet Turner, Farmland Ecology Research Assistant
In my first week as a pollinator ecologist for GWCT Farmland Ecology, a national heatwave hit, and I found myself roasting in the middle of an enormous wheat field, 30+ degrees of sun blazing down upon me. I had been out in the heat all day, a...
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Written by Jayna Connelly, Science Communicator
Tree planting is often seen as a universal fix for climate change, biodiversity loss and even economies via carbon credits. But ask any conservation scientist at the GWCT and they’ll tell you that it is just not that simple.
When done well, woodland...
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