Blogs

We respond to a recent letter to The Times written by the RSPB.

By Prof. Chris Stoate, Allerton Project Head of Research, looks at the Welland Valley Partnership, which was one of the first to be set up under Defra's Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) initiative in 2013.

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, including James Phillips of Natural England.

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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, including Heidi Smith.

The low number of juvenile salmon (called smolts) leaving the River Frome in Dorset for their feeding grounds in the North Atlantic in the spring of 2017 (called the smolt run) quantified by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust in collaboration with Cefas and the Environment Agency is likely to result in a decline in the numbers of adult salmon returning to our rivers in the next few years.

Like most organisations, we have our own press people but if you would be interested in speaking on air or even filmed in a BBC studio, why not let us know? The next time they ask to speak to someone with your experience, where you are, we can let you know – the choice is then yours.

Guest blog by Richard Negus, a GWCT member who is running the Northumberland Coastal Path Marathon in aid of our curlew appeal.

On a much-needed sunny day in Aberdeenshire recently, GWSDF Auchnerran welcomed Graeme Dey MSP, convenor of the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee (ECCLRC); and Andrew Proudfoot, senior assistant clerk to the committee.

New wader count training courses that GWCT Scotland is rolling out across the country stem from a working partnership encouraged by Working for Waders, a Moorland Forum initiative. The wader counts help the farmers, keepers and land managers to carry out the monitoring themselves.