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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Type of appointment: 12 month fixed-term contract, full time
Reporting to: Membership and Shop Manager
Location: Office based from Burgate Manor, Fordingbridge
Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week across a Monday - Friday working patte...
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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
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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...
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Trout Life History Project
Brown trout at Loddington
The winter ecology of brown trout
Which river characteristics provide better habitat for young salmon and trout?
Were there fewer young salmon and trout in 2016?
What effect do beaver dams have on brown trout?
Stocking rivers with adult ...
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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...
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Wylye Grayling and Trout Survey
What is causing the Wylye grayling to decline?
How does river flow and temperature affect survival of young European grayling?
How a changing environment affects grayling at different life stages
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