Blogs

With the help of those who have kindly donated to our appeal, we have been able to start our important work 

Rory Kennedy of Chiene + Tait will be chairing an exciting breakfast event at the GWCT Scottish Game Fair at Scone, Friday 1st July.

Chris Stoate discusses the referendum result and the continuation of our collaboration with European partners on research into the maintenance of healthy soils.

Amelia Woolford reports from the Allerton Project after we hosted this year’s annual Produce World ‘Grower Day’. 

Jim Egan previews a series of events being delivered by the Campaign for the Farmed Environment that  will focus on pollinators and their benefits to farm businesses.

This year’s smolt run has finally finished. After seven weeks of around-the-clock work, we are exhausted but pleased with the results. We estimated a total of 9,539 smolts passing our base at East Stoke in Dorset, which is slightly up on the five-year average (9,033), but down on the ten-year average (10,220).

This week, insects are in the spotlight as we celebrate National Insect Week. Grey partridge chicks may not be celebrating, though. Their survival depends on chick-food insect availability around ground level and we fear that our late, wet spring means that insect numbers are low for many areas of the country.

Rasmus Lauridsen reports on the return of the first salmon to have been tagged using our new PIT detection equipment.

Dr. Niamh McHugh introduces our new project looking at barn swallow foraging on arable land in relation to agri-environment scheme habitat options.

Chris Heward discusses his PhD thesis which concerns the declining British woodcock population.