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Elder

Elder A beautiful and bountiful indicator of the change of the seasons. A forager’s dream in spring and late summer, but feared by the devil! The summer has been long and hot and we are now in the midst of a mast year. The trees and hedgerows are brimming with fruit and nuts, and I have been doin...

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)...

Unlock the Data

Help us prove the true value of sustainable game management  Can you imagine a thriving countryside without the benefits of sustainable game management? Neither can we. Yet, unless we act now, that future is a real possibility. Across the UK, shoots and land managers are under increasing pressur...

Facts and figures

We employ over 100 staff, including many scientists, and run over 60 research projects - many in collaboration with universities supervising PhD students. We have an annual income of £6.8 million mostly coming from members, donations, fundraising events, sponsorship and charitable trusts. The re...

Volunteering

By volunteering some of your time, you can help us with our work in game conservation and management. This time can be given to help us with our research, helping a county group with its event organisation and management or helping us fundraise. If you have any particular skills this could be ben...

Advice & Training

No change to Scottish General Licences in 2023 NatureScot have announced that General Licences in 2023 will remain the same as those issued on 1st January 2022. It is important that everyone reads and understands the relevant licences for the control of pest bird species (GLs 01, 02 & 03/2023...

Reintroducing water voles to the River Dore

Do beetles eat spiders?

Changes in partridge numbers

River Monnow Project