Blogs
31/7/2024 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project
Professor Chris Stoate looks back on the Allerton Project’s achievements as he steps down as its Head of Research.
19/7/2024 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Big Farmland Bird Count
The annual monitoring of breeding songbirds at the Allerton Project now represents a long-term dataset spanning 33 years. Overall songbird numbers remain around 70% higher than they were at the start of the project in 1992.
15/7/2024 in: Allerton Project Research Blog
This week saw another significant and exciting development in the life of the Allerton Project: we opened our newly build accommodation to our first guests – very fittingly GWCT staff coming to help with our research work.
10/6/2024 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
I recently returned from the biennial EURAF European Agroforestry Conference in the Czech Republic. My train from Vienna was cancelled because of exceptionally severe flooding in Austria and southern Germany so that I arrived home a day late. It was a relatively minor inconvenience. The flooding resulted in fatalities, river levels rising to their highest level in a century, and the Danube being closed to shipping.
26/4/2024 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project
Over Agroforestry Open Weekend 2024 we will be open Friday 17th May 1.00 – 3.00pm
11/12/2023 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming , Farmland Ecology
We all have vested interests. Sometimes they can be a driver for good. There are some opportunities to be realised through adoption of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, but we need to accept that there are sacrifices too, and individuals vary in their willingness to embrace this for the greater good.
26/9/2023 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Farming , Allerton Project
Farmers are experiencing a period of considerable change as area payments are withdrawn, global market pressures reduce income, climate change introduces unfamiliar challenges, and new agri-environment schemes are rolled out.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 Farming with the Environment explores these issues from the farmer’s viewpoint, based on our collaborative working with local farmers on various initiatives over the years.
9/8/2023 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Farming , Allerton Project , Farmland Ecology
Politicising climate change is dangerous. There are numerous examples of how forcing complex environmental issues into binary choices doesn’t turn out well. Understanding the science, accepting the complexity, and acting on the best evidence available at the time is the only way out of the considerable challenges we currently face.
2/8/2023 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Nature , Farming
There’s a row broken out in the Garden of Eden. Apparently, we must cease our assiduous nurturing of our horticultural havens and allow nature to do a Brexit and “take back control”. Yes, you’ve guessed, the Rewilders have your lawns in their sights!
22/6/2023 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming , Farmland Ecology
Chapter 6 of Farming with the Environment covers the aquatic side of things. Some of it is about how nutrients behave in water and how aquatic invertebrate communities are affected by them. But the fact is that what goes on in water is influenced massively by the management of the land draining into it.
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