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Hundreds of different invertebrate species live within cropped fields, but fortunately, few ever become pests because they are killed by other invertebrates, their natural enemies. However, insecticides are toxic to most arthropods including the natural enemies and insects important as bird food....
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Unfortunately our regular Highland and Grampian events that take place at The Storehouse and Lochter Activity Centre respectively are not going ahead again this year for obvious reasons. We had hoped that restrictions would have eased in time to hold some form of gathering but it’s not to be.
How...
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We aim for a thriving countryside rich in game and other wildlife
What do we do?
We use science to promote game and wildlife management as an essential part of nature conservation.
We develop scientifically researched game and wildlife management techniques.
We promote our work to conservationi...
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Publications Officer
Louise has worked at the GWCT for more than 20 years and is responsible for the editing, design and layout of GWCT’s members magazine Gamewise, as well as many science reports. She has always been interested in wildlife and lives in the New Forest with Austin, who works as a ...
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Mistletoe
Poisonous, mythical and parasitical
Another year has passed, and this will be my 41st Species of the Month – how time flies! So, as this is the month of Christmas, I thought I would do something obvious. No, it is not a robin, it is mistletoe.
Mistletoe is a familiar Christmas staple, s...
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Key points:
This study brings together the most comprehensive dataset of nest-camera studies across Britain, analysing over 2,000 nests from 24 bird species.
Mammals, particularly foxes and badgers, were identified as the main nest predators, especially for ground-nesting waders such as curlew a...
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The public aren’t being told about the vital work being done in the British countryside. You can change that today.
You don’t hear much about the good work done by farmers and land managers. How many people in our towns and cities know about the conservation work being done on farms every single...
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Our study on the Sussex Downs is the longest-running monitoring project in the world that measures the impact of changes in farming on the fauna and flora of arable land. It started in 1968 with an investigation into the causes of the decline in numbers of the grey partridge.
The Sussex Study cel...
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Increasing food and bees >
The importance of different crops for supporting bird life >
Weeds in arable fields could help declining insect populations >
How is the activity of different bat species affected by agri-environment schemes? >
Managing pesticide contamination in surface wa...
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