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Farm4Bio

The widespread adoption of agri-environment schemes is seen as the best way to improve farmland biodiversity. Yet if this approach is to be applied efficiently and successfully we first need to know: Does active management (comparable to the HLS approach with advisory back up) compared to farm m...

Unleash the Science Fund

By Sir Jim Paice, GWCT Chairman You will have seen the headlines about our climate, about the need to store more carbon, about species in decline. You and I live in a world that is always looking for simple answers. For over 80 years, GWCT research has helped to inform the way this land is manag...

Research-based wildflower seed mix is more attractive to pollinating insects than standard mixes

Species

Birds Grey partridge > Common pheasant > Red grouse > Black Grouse > Birds of prey > Lapwing and other waders > Woodcock > Songbirds > Fish Salmon > Trout > Grayling > Pike > Mammals Brown hare > Mountain hare > Water vole > Deer > American mink &g...

Project resources

Report spotlight  LIFE Waders for Real Lay Summary This document provides an overall summary of the entire project written in an accessible manner with non-technical language.  Saving Our Lapwing A guide to successful community conservation

GWCT Scotland Update

Dear Scottish member I have now been in post for five months as the Director for The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust for Scotland, having taken over from Dr Adam Smith, who has moved to be Director (Policy). There is a lot going on, much of which you will be aware, and the aim of this lett...

Trout

Trout Life History Project  Brown trout at Loddington  The winter ecology of brown trout  Which river characteristics provide better habitat for young salmon and trout?  Were there fewer young salmon and trout in 2016?  What effect do beaver dams have on brown trout?  Stocking rivers with adult ...

Red grouse

How did the removal of grouse moor management in Berwyn SPA affect other birds? Dispersal and mortality of red grouse in northern England  Red grouse and climate change  Strongyle infection rates  Treatment of strongylosis  Parasites and red grouse  Controlling louping ill  Grouse moor survey  A...

Grayling

Wylye Grayling and Trout Survey  What is causing the Wylye grayling to decline?  How does river flow and temperature affect survival of young European grayling?  How a changing environment affects grayling at different life stages 

QuESSA

Nature can provide a multitude of hidden benefits to humans such as control of crop pests by their natural enemies, crop pollination and prevention of soil erosion that keeps rivers clean. These are known as ecosystem services and are worth billions of euros every year in each European country. T...