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The public aren’t being told about the vital work being done in the British countryside. You can change that today.
You don’t hear much about the good work done by farmers and land managers. How many people in our towns and cities know about the conservation work being done on farms every single...
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Our work has shown that conventionally-farmed winter wheat does not contain enough invertebrates for farmland birds. However, this can be mitigated by establishing conservation headlands or by creating other insect-rich habitats.
The Sustainable Arable Farming for an Improved Environment (SAFFIE)...
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The widespread adoption of agri-environment schemes is seen as the best way to improve farmland biodiversity. Yet if this approach is to be applied efficiently and successfully we first need to know:
Does active management (comparable to the HLS approach with advisory back up) compared to farm m...
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Wildlife legislation provides for the protection of our wildlife, and the licensing procedure exists to create the ability to undertake, but only where there is a valid justification, an activity affecting a plant or animal which would otherwise be illegal. Natural England issues thousands of ind...
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Monitoring services
We offer basic disease and population monitoring services to assist with ongoing management ambitions. We can:
Do your worm counts
Undertake spring and summer grouse counts
Identify the presence of louping ill by blood testing grouse, hares and sheep
Analyse worm presence whe...
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Grouse moors are often located on blanket bog peatland, which sits across upland hills like a sponge, soaking up rainwater. This water is absorbed, trickles through the peat soils and is slowly released into streams and rivers flowing towards lowland areas. This means that how these blanket bogs ...
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By Sir Jim Paice, GWCT Chairman
You will have seen the headlines about our climate, about the need to store more carbon, about species in decline.
You and I live in a world that is always looking for simple answers. For over 80 years, GWCT research has helped to inform the way this land is manag...
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A report on our nine-year upland predation experiment in Northumberland, which looks at the effect of predator control on upland waders. We show that reducing numbers of carrion crows and foxes signifcantly improves the breeding success of lapwing, curlew and golden plover. Populations of these w...
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This research paper was written by scientists outside the GWCT. Burning on peatlands is a topic of ongoing academic debate, and this article is not to be considered in isolation. For an in-depth summary of burning and peatland management, please read the GWCT’s Peatland Report. This report looks ...
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Will you help us to prove what’s driving nest losses?
By Dr Andrew Hoodless, GWCT Director of Research
You and I both know that many ground-nesting birds are in desperate need of help.
If you look at the red list of Birds of Conservation Concern, it’s there for all to see. Lapwing, curlew, ringe...
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