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Managing pesticide contamination in surface wa...
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Winter feeding saves the lives of game and songbirds. But almost half the grain is wasted on rodents, corvids, squirrels, deer and even a turkey!
Help fund research to find the optimum hopper
Losing 49% of the grain in gamebird feed hoppers to other unwanted species is a bit like sitting down to ...
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Propyzamide is a herbicide applied in autumn and winter to control blackgrass in oilseed rape and field beans.
Herbicides move from treated land to a nearby area of mainly water via overland flow.
Vegetated buffers are the main method used to reduce pesticide/herbicide concentrations,...
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Agricultural practices have become more intensive, which has contributed to declines in farmland birds such as yellowhammers.
Yellowhammers are an important farmland bird and are red listed in the UK.
Scientists studied 147 yellowhammer nests, predator numbers, and agri-environment sc...
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Creating a blueprint for restoring game and other wildlife on profitable mixed farmland
Unlike at our previous grey partridge demonstration site at Royston, where increased pheasant and red-legged partridge production arose as a by–product of intensive grey partridge management, the Rotherfield D...
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Belinda Bown (Farmland Ecology)
This placement year has been invaluable and provided me with a wide range of experiences. In the lab I have done everything from insect identification to maintaining an aphid colony. Whilst in the field I have watched foraging swallows, collected thousands of insec...
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Photo credit: Laurie Campbell
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust recognises the importance of muirburn as a land management and conservation tool and has now launched a new Muirburn Advisory Service to support estates in developing and monitoring simple, user-friendly muirburn plans...
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Each year the GWCT hosts undergraduate students on ecology, conservation and data science-related degrees, offering them an exciting opportunity to spend their sandwich placement year taking part in important game and wildlife conservation research. Placements are based at both our headquarters a...
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Lowland heathlands are internationally important habitats that support a wide range of notable and specialist species. These habitats require management to maintain them in good condition.
Prescribed burning of heathland habitats has quickly become a ‘hot topic’, with growing concerns...
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Wildflower margins or plots are popular agri-environment scheme (AES) options that provide habitat and forage for insects, but some flower species and mixes are not underpinned by robust research.
Scientists created a new mix based on their own primary field research, and another new ...
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