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Check out the latest line-up of Summer events at the GWCT Allerton Project. 

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Over the last few weeks, the Scottish Lowlands team has been busy completing the tenth year of spring grey partridge pair surveys on Balgonie farm.

It has been a challenging season for the fish research team here at East Stoke in Dorset. The exceptionally high rainfall has led to extremely high river levels, making it impossible for us to carry out much of our field work and shortening other parts, which affects population estimates.

Everyone has their own idea of when spring has arrived; for some it’s the first time they spot daffodils coming up, for others it might be the first gloopy frogspawn in a puddle. Here at Auchnerran, it’s a weird, looping sound that fills the skies, almost reminiscent of somebody trying to tune an old radio receiver.

Over Agroforestry Open Weekend 2024 we will be open Friday 17th May 1.00 – 3.00pm

The Common Earthworm is the posterchild for UK earthworms due to its impressive size and longevity, living for an average of 4-8 years and growing up to an enormous 35cm when mature. It recently wiggled its way to a landslide victory in The Guardian’s inaugural invertebrate of the year award, cementing its place (for this year at least) as the UK’s favourite spineless creature. 

Thanks to the generosity of GWCT supporters and the HOLTS Auctioneers Charity and Legacy Programme another £12,500 was raised for the GWCT over the HOLTS March / April sale cycle.

To mark World Curlew Day we'd like to share ‘Call of the Moors', a poem written by Nigel Algar Orde-Powlett, later 6th Baron Bolton, when he was a teenager. It was published in 1918 and he wrote it after his older brother 2nd Lieutenant William Percy Orde-Powlett was killed in action during World War One