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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...
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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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There are a number of conflicts today across the upland landscape, whether it be overgrazing carbon-rich soils by sheep, the construction of wind farms, or the conflicts of rotational heather burning. The uplands are a complex place with a unique socio-economic and environmental balance. To pick ...
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Key points
Biological control of cereal pests is desirable for farmers.
The study examines the level of predation on different pest species in areas with different amounts of semi-natural habitats in the landscape, as well as effects of field boundary type.
Levels of predation varied widely, but...
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This research paper was written by scientists outside the GWCT. Burning on peatlands is a topic of ongoing academic debate, and this article is not to be considered in isolation. For an in-depth summary of burning and peatland management, please read the GWCT’s Peatland Report. This report looks ...
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Discussion on the future for biodiversity and the tools needed to increase wildlife in our countryside. This included the use and benefits of legal predator control and adaptive management approaches to conservation.
Mike Short from the GWCT’s Predation Research team said: “It isn’t just better h...
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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, ...
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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.
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