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By Prof. Chris Stoate, Allerton Project Head of Research
Farmers are experiencing a period of considerable change as area payments are withdrawn, global market pressures reduce income, climate change introduces unfamiliar challenges, and new agri-environment schemes are rolled out.
Chapter 8 of F...
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In lifechanging times like these, the natural world doesn’t stop. There have been lots of chin-stroking think pieces in the newspapers and on television about what impact coronavirus and any restrictions on movement might have for nature. We have seen reports of nature thriving and emissions fall...
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Written by Simon Kibble, Working Conservationist
Whilst the winter of 2019/20 caused havoc to farming and life in general the spring wasn’t shaping up great either.
However difficult things are, there always comes a surprise to brighten the mood. In this case it was the arrival of two green plov...
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How GWCT helps working conservationists
Visit Working for Wildlife - the home of Britain's Working Conservationists >
As the UK’s leading wildlife research charity, GWCT is uniquely placed to enable the transformation to the pioneering approach of working conservationists. For more than 80 ye...
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Written by Dave Parish, Head of Scottish Lowland Research
5 Minute Read
This year we have published two blogs (here and here) reporting unusually high levels of badger predation on early lapwing clutches at our demonstration farm, Auchnerran. Predation is always the principal cause of wader egg ...
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By Mike Swan, GWCT Head of Education
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I have suspected it for a while, but confirmation popped into the inbox the other day. Four rat tail tips that I had sent to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) for genetic screening came back positive for second generation anticoagulant r...
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The recent People’s Trust for Endangered Species/British Hedgehog Preservation Society report on the State of the British Hedgehogs 2022 makes mixed reading. The population and distribution picture for hedgehogs is compiled from a number of different surveys addressing different objectives (e.g...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
In the run up to the commencement of COP15 the role of protection in wildlife conservation has been promoted by a number of eNGOS so we thought it useful to consider whether nature benefits from protection – and therefore whether more is the an...
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By Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer England
“Action [to prepare for wildfire] cannot be delayed further. To do so will lock in more damaging impacts and threaten the delivery of other key Government objectives, such as Net Zero.”Climate Change Committee Progress in adapting to climate change...
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By Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer (England)
Whilst there was much to be positive about in the recent announcement by the Defra Secretary of State on the 2024 SFI offer in terms of its support for farming (see Comprehensive new SFI scheme a big step forward – the GWCT response), we are disappo...
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