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  • Farming

    Popular Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): A Guide to the New and Improved Scheme > Biodiversity audits for farms: the new GWCT Natural Capital Advisory service > 2023 GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count results > Countryside Stewardship Mid Tier: A Guide for Farmers and Land Managers > A ...

  • How your money is spent

    All the money raised from the Scottish Auction funds our vital research, education and policy work in Scotland. A breakdown of how your money is used is shown below:

  • Guides and Factsheets

    These guides have been written to help farmers and landowners with practical conservation work. They can be read online, downloaded as PDFs, or we can send a printed version free of charge on request. Results from our research have been instrumental in the production of both our own guidance note...

  • March 2024: AGM and discussion on “Soil carbon – can you measure it?”

    DOWNLOAD MINUTES > Download presentations Soil carbon research at the Allerton Project Sequestering carbon in arable soils - not as easy as you think! (but good for soil health)

  • Getting the message out about practical conservation

    If you were at our Members’ Conference last month, you would have heard Sir John Randall MP talk about the importance of sharing research with the public and politicians in a clear and understandable manner. He said the following after meeting with our Director of Policy, Dr Alastair Leake: “He p...

  • Video and Radio

    GWCT Welsh Game Fair - Interview with Cai ap Bryn The GWCT's Lee Oliver interviews Cai ap Bryn at the 2022 GWCT Welsh Game Fair. The benefits of tree planting and game management on farms Julian Fenwick manages a mixed hill farm along with a small pheasant shoot near Machynlleth, Powys, whilst h...

  • Avian influenza Q & A

    This guidance has been reviewed by Defra It is incumbent on the shooting community to play its part in helping to reduce the spread and impact of current outbreak of Avian Influenza. This document has been jointly created by the organisations who make up Aim to Sustain to help all in the shooting...

  • November 2015: Biodiversity 2020: What are the tools we need to create success?

    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...

  • GWCT Complaints Policy and Procedure

    We want to find out about things that have gone wrong so we can fix them, and prevent things going wrong in the future [1]. To help get this right we expect the person making the complaint to: Provide sufficient information for us to be able to understand the complaint, its cause, and a potentia...

  • Core monitoring

    Research and monitoring is important at Auchnerran as it is crucial to monitor and understand the impact of farming on biodiversity. Research will help to influence farm management decisions, especially regarding sensitivity towards wildlife. For the first two years (2015 & 2016) of the proje...

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