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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...

Farmland food webs

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...

Help the GWCT come back stronger

With your help we can come out of the pandemic even stronger By Teresa Dent CBE, GWCT Chief Executive 3 minute read A year on from the start of the pandemic, your support has given us hope and enabled us to keep going – thank you. When the pandemic hit last March, we forecast a drop in income of...

Royston Grey Partridge Recovery Project

Sussex Study

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...

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...

PepsiCo FAB

The PepsiCo FAB (Farming Arable Biodiversity) project aims to demonstrate how productive agriculture does not need to suffer for good environmental stewardship. The project uses what was learned during the EU Interreg PARTRIDGE project (2016-2023) and is aiming to scale up its approach. To demons...

Megan Lock

Farmland Biodiversity Advisor Megan facilitates two large Farmer Clusters, undertaking ecological surveys, planning and overseeing habitat connection, creation and management, and provides training and events. She also delivers GWCT Advisory services and manages several individual client portfoli...

Niamh McHugh

Head of Farmland Ecology Unit Niamh is Head of Farmland Ecology Research at the GWCT. Much of her research focuses on landscape-scale farmer collaboration and the potential benefits this may have on farming systems (e.g. regenerative agriculture), farmland birds (e.g. barn owls), and wider ecosys...

Our trustees

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust's patron is HM The King and its president is the Marquess of Salisbury. The Board of Trustees has overall responsibility for the Trust and provides us with a breadth of experience and expertise in the countryside and wildlife conservation. Chairman The ...