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

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Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust has a vision for a thriving countryside rich in game and other wildlife. Using its experience and reputation built over almost 100 years of working with people in the countryside, the GWCT is committed to developin...

The Untold Story Appeal

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...

Sustainable Arable Farming for an Improved Environment (SAFFIE)

Our work has shown that conventionally-farmed winter wheat does not contain enough invertebrates for farmland birds. However, this can be mitigated by establishing conservation headlands or by creating other insect-rich habitats. The Sustainable Arable Farming for an Improved Environment (SAFFIE)...

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...

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

Forage for CH4nge

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. Funded ...

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...