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By Amber Hopgood, Writer and Research Specialist
Following an online hiatus, last week saw the return of the GWCT’s Game Conference for the first time since 2019. A highly anticipated event, delegates travelled to Shrewsbury from all corners of the United Kingdom to learn about the latest develop...
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By Mike Short, Head of Predation Control Studies
After two consecutive years of intensive curlew nest monitoring in the New Forest, it’s now clear that foxes pose the greatest threat to curlew nest survival in our study area. Of the 41 curlew nests monitored with cameras in 2021 and 2022, 25 fail...
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By Jayna Connelly, Farmland Ecology Research Assistant
When your think of “robbers”, who comes to mind? Surely not a cute little honeybee. Over the course of the BEESPOKE project, this is a revelation that has stuck with me from the beginning.
As the project draws to a close, there are a number o...
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Some research we carried out within the Water Friendly Farming project in 2017 has just been published in the Journal of Environmental Management. We use a herbicide that is used to control black-grass in arable crops as an initial focus for exploring broad catchment management issues with farme...
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By Max Wright, Placement Student, GWSDF
Living in the middle of nowhere is difficult at the best of times. But when a global pandemic hits and you’re not allowed near civilisation, different challenges arise. Limited to brief once-weekly interactions with our boss and farm research assistant Marl...
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By Jemma Gibson, GIS Placement Student
The D-Vac is a machine that has been used for sampling insects on the Trust’s long-term study areas since before I was born. It has a petrol motor, with a large fan and a tube for suction. It’s a heavy, smelly, dirty machine but it does the job. Insect sampl...
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Guest blog by Dr Rob Brooker of the James Hutton Institute
Vegetation sampling in a beans and rye mixture
There may be a point in the career of many researchers when they take a step away from being dispassionate observers and decide instead to get their sleeves rolled up and try to make a diffe...
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As 2020 draws to a close, it would be easy to only reflect on the challenges we have all faced. As a charity, times have not been easy and you will have seen that early in the lockdown, we forecast a £1.4m shortfall in income.
Despite that, we are still here, still undertaking cutting-edge resea...
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As one of the most ancient activities of human beings, fieldsports have been slow to adapt to modern times. Some may wonder whether the digital age will ever reach our sport and what benefits it could prove to bring for the individual, their family, and their countryside…
Founded in 2018, MyFiel...
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By Sue Evans, Director GWCT Cymru
4 Minute Read
Welsh Government are really keen to plant thousands of hectares of trees in Wales. The drive to plant trees to sequester carbon raises the potential conflict between carbon and biodiversity and at present it seems that carbon trumps biodiversity. ...
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