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The GWCT has long advocated the need to focus on soil health (see blogs in March 2020 and January 2021). At our demonstration farm, the Allerton project, we have undertaken research to understand what constitutes a healthy soil and how to measure constituents such as soil moisture (see March 2...
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Dr. Niamh McHugh
What do you do?
I’m a postdoctoral researcher with the Farmland Ecology team, working on efforts to enhance lowland agriculture for the benefit of farmland birds and, more recently, bats.
How did you get here?
I have always been passionate about ornithology and in 2012 I was luc...
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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Farmers are experiencing a period of considerable change as area payments are withdrawn, global market pressures reduce income, climate change introduces unfamiliar challenges, and new agri-environment schemes are rolled out.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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Are you a GWCT member living in Surrey? If so, we have a favour to ask...
Currently, we don't have a GWCT committee in Surrey and would be very pleased to hear from anyone willing to help in the county. It's not a huge commitment, just a couple of meetings a year and helping with events to promo...
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Are you a GWCT member living in Berkshire? If so, we have a favour to ask...
Currently, we don't have a GWCT committee in Berkshire and would be very pleased to hear from anyone willing to help in the county. It's not a huge commitment, just a couple of meetings a year and helping with events to...
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Dear Sir,
Adam Vaughan’s recent article Shooting curbs to save endangered woodcock, includes inaccuracies which make it misleading. The woodcock is neither rare nor endangered. The size of the breeding population is on a par with that of the curlew and about twice that of the redshank. In winter,...
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Norfolk gamekeeper Steven Musk CREDIT: Jason Bye for The Telegraph
While there is no doubt the impact of gamebird releasing on the spread of avian flu must be carefully assessed and monitoring ongoing (Gamekeepers facing ruin over avian flu rules, 28 June), it must be weighed against the conside...
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The inaugural Agriculture Act to emerge from Wales has received Royal Assent and now active.
While the national headlines of the Act are about the future of agriculture in Wales, those who have been managing foxes have been dealt a huge blow with the banning of all snares, including the GWCT-de...
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Following the success of the GWCT Game 23 Conference in Shropshire earlier this year, we are delighted to confirm that GWCT’s annual game conference Game 24 which will take place on Tuesday 5th March 2024.
The conference will be held at The Garden Rooms at Tennants, Leyburn, North Yorkshire and ...
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There are few more iconic sights than a curlew in flight, but without intervention it could be something future generations will never get to enjoy. The curlew with its distinctive haunting call, is now one of our most rapidly declining breeding bird species in the UK. Watch our short video which...
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