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Key points
Salmon populations have been declining over the past 30 years.
Salmon hatch in streams, migrate to the sea after 1-4 years, spend one or more years at sea, before travelling back to their home stream to spawn.
When spawning they make nests in the gravel, called redds.
The distribution...
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Tunnel trapping describes the use of spring traps (kill traps) to catch small mammalian predators and pests. Under the Pest Act 1954, the only kill traps allowed are those approved by the appropriate Ministry (currently Defra) and listed in statutes (Spring Trap Approval Orders). Trap approval ge...
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This article, written by Gillian Gooderham, appeared on the National Geographic website in April 2018 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sussex Study
From inauspicious beginnings in a Sussex barn to policy-changing science, the Sussex Study aims to reverse the decline of wildlife on Britain's fa...
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The Sustainable Arable Farming For an Improved Environment (SAFFIE) project aimed to develop our understanding of the results shown in our previous work, showing that conventionally farmed winter wheat does not contain enough invertebrates for farmland birds.
Our research had suggested that this ...
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Type of appointment: From June 2024, permanent.
Full-time (37.5 hours per week). Flexible work pattern or part-time role negotiable.
Reporting to: Director of Research; Director of the Allerton Project
Location: The Allerton Project Centre, Loddington, Leicestershire, LE7 9XE
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Leah Kelly (Wetlands)
I am so glad that I had the opportunity to do my placement with the Wetlands Research team at the GWCT. It has been incredibly rewarding being able to assist with data collection, helping towards the conservation of two declining UK bird species, the Eurasian woodcock and th...
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Snares have been a widely used method of capturing foxes since the early 20th century, when flexible steel cable first became available. In recent decades there has however been a good deal of controversy over their use in the UK. Recognising the shortage of hard factual information, the GWCT has...
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A landscape-scale experiment into multiple benefits of catchment management
Can catchment management improve soils and protect freshwaters?
If we hold back water on farmland will it prevent floods further down the catchment?
Will changing land management improve water quality?
How can we stop th...
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