Blogs

We respond to a recent piece in The Herald on the drastic decline in curlew numbers. 

The autumn edition of our members’ magazine, Gamewise, has been signed off and is now with the printers. It will be with our members at the beginning of October and here is a sneak preview of what’s inside. 

John Holland, Head of our Farmland Ecology Unit provides an update based on recent research.

Olga Potts provides news on the fund which was set up earlier this year following Dick's passing in April.

THE team of fisheries scientists, who have been tagging salmon and trout smolts on the River Frome, were interviewed by the media on Monday 11th September.

Access Trailers was conceived over 18 years ago by Ian Longden who at the time was the Warden of an educational farm on the edge of Sheffield. He spent over 18 months researching trailers for transporting educational groups including wheelchair users around the 120 acre farm where he worked.

The last couple of years at GWSDF Auchnerran have highlighted the huge abundance of breeding waders on the site, with Lapwing, Curlew, Oystercatcher, Woodcock and Snipe present in droves. Here are a few photographs from the 2017 monitoring season.

GWSDF Auchnerran is a hill edge farm that is looking to inform other environmental organisations of the importance of integrated land management, influence Scottish government policy regarding the sustainable wildlife management in areas of productive agriculture and inspire farmers, land managers, communities and members of the public with the respect to the benefits farming and game management bring to our diverse countryside.

Photographer Jon Farmer discusses his new Shoot Centrepiece concept, which involves framing a bespoke Ordnance Survey map with images taken on the shoot.

We're hosting our very first Farmer Clusters Conference on 12th October where you will have the chance to hear first-hand accounts of running a Farmer Cluster and the opportunities it provides. A range of farmers, facilitators and advisors will be speaking at the conference, with Sir John Lawton delivering the keynote address.