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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...

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

Trout

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 ...

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...

Grayling

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 

QuESSA

Nature can provide a multitude of hidden benefits to humans such as control of crop pests by their natural enemies, crop pollination and prevention of soil erosion that keeps rivers clean. These are known as ecosystem services and are worth billions of euros every year in each European country. T...

Meet the team

Max Wright Research Assistant Janine Stikeleather Administrator Honor Jones Placement Student Lily Dobson Placement Student Dyfan Jenkins Shepherd Morgan Milne Under Shepherd Scott Newey Head of Uplands Research

EU Habitat Action Plan 4030: Maintaining and restoring European dry heaths

This EU Habitat Action Plan was published by the European Commission in 2020. It provides guidance to maintain and restore European dry heaths to a favourable conservation status. Dry heaths are wide open landscapes, typically occurring on free-draining soil that has a relatively low nutrient con...

History of the Trust

A severe outbreak of the disease Strongylosis in grey partridges in 1931 led Major HG Eley (a cartridge manufacturer employed by ICI) to establish the ICI Game Research Station at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. He gave a research grant to Doug Middleton at the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford, ...