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We are pleased to report that via Holts November auction close to £15,000 was raised for the GWCT, thanks to the generosity of donors using the Holts Charity and Legacy Lots Programme.
The Holts November main auction was highly successful, exceeding 90% sold. It is heartening to see that demand ...
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The British Beekeepers’ Association (BBKA) is calling on the public to help fight a major threat to honey bees and other pollinators - Asian hornets. Numbers of the destructive insect are rising rapidly this summer and more have been detected in the UK this year than in the previous six years co...
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As I mentioned in Part 1 of this series of blogs, working as a research assistant at the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) gives me the opportunity to work on some incredibly exciting research. In early 2022 I joined the Trust’s Predation Control Studies team, where I am learning new sk...
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Guest blog by NFU Mutual
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The cost of rural theft in Scotland fell 25% to an estimated £1.7m in 2020 as COVID restrictions, rural policing and beefed up farm security kept criminals out of the countryside, according to figures released by leading rural insurer, NFU Mutual.
NFU Mutua...
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4 Minute Read
Last week the RSPB announced that they were launching a new app to allow members of the public to report incidents of burning in the uplands. The purpose of this new initiative is to identify where burning is taking place, and RSPB hope to use the results to support their call for G...
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Written by Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer
A recent article in the Guardian (8th April) about the Bermuda triangle for hen harriers typifies the debate surrounding hen harrier conservation and the nature of this ‘human-wildlife conflict’.
Human-wildlife conflicts occur when wild animal specie...
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Blog written by Chris Stoate, Head of Allerton Project Research
Phosphorus is an essential element. It is involved in multiple biological functions and is an important fertiliser for crop growth. It is also a finite resource and one that must be imported to the UK from other countries, some of w...
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Written by Prof. Chris Stoate Allerton Project Head of Research
It is not uncommon to get asked for research results at the start of a research project, rather than the end of it! It is gratifying that the research projects we carry out are perceived to be so relevant that people are keen to kn...
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Last weeks news
Keeping our research going in unprecedented times
The situation we are currently facing through the spread of COVID-19 changes much of how we live our lives, but – where safe– we are trying to continue as much possible.
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Game shooting and wildlife conservation in un...
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By Prof. Chris Stoate, Allerton Project Head of Research
This is the first of a sequence of blog posts based on chapters from my latest book, Farming with the Environment: Thirty Years of Allerton Project Research, which was recently published by Routledge. Logically enough, I am starting at the ...
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