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Exclusive benefits for GWCT Patrons
✓ Invitations to behind-the-scenes visits to important conservation projects, including real research in action at GWCT conservation sites, such as its headquarters at Burgate Manor, in Hampshire, or Th...
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The project
The Forage for CH4nge project aims to improve sustainability and move towards net zero farming by investigating emissions and forage utilisation in native Swaledale sheep compared to cross-bred sheep on the upland landscape forage, something that has never been studied before.
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Lee Oliver
Interim Director for WalesEmail: loliver@gwct.org.uk
Born and brought up on the beautiful Llŷn Peninsula, North Wales, Lee is a first language Welsh speaker and comes from a farming community where his grandfather farmed sheep and beef. Lee lives with his family of three children and ...
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Farmland is home to hundreds of plant and thousands of animal species, many of which are highly dependent on each other forming a complex food web. This was first revealed by our early work on the grey partridge in Sussex.
The population of grey partridge was partially dependent on the survival r...
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Nick von WestenholzChief Executive
Edward MacfarlaneChief Operating Officer
Nick SheeranChief Financial Officer
Roger Draycott PhDDirector of Advisory and Education
Nick Hesford PhDDirector Scotland
Andrew Hoodless PhDDirector of Research
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“Our countryside’s future rests in the hands of those who care for it everyday — without support for our farmers, nature recovery hangs in the balance.”- Dr. Alastair Leake, Director of Policy, GWCT
Your support is vital. We’ve shown that nature recovery is possible on working fa...
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Win an exclusive shoot day at Loddington
A superb experience for a team of eight guns to shoot at the GWCT’s demonstration farm in Loddington, Leicestershire, where rolling topography provides varied and challenging shooting.
This exciting and rare opportunity for you and your friends is not to ...
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Key points
Monitoring curlew and other ground-nesting birds is essential for effective conservation efforts but previous methods have been time consuming and delay action.
Researchers trained a new AI model called YOLOv10 by combining a pre-existing conservation AI database with nearly 39,000 im...
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Ramsons
A distinctly delicious sign of the old and of spring
The birds have started to sing differently, the days are getting longer, and at last it is starting to feel a bit warmer, but it’s just a shame the rain hasn’t stopped yet, especially for our farmers who are trying to get on the land at...
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Skylark
A well-known species in literature, poetry, art and music, the skylark hardly needs an introduction. Best known for its display flight, vertically up in the air.
It is that time of year when the Walled Garden, where Research and Advisory is stationed at GWCT HQ, falls a little quiet, as b...
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