Press Releases - February 2023

Join us for the SAMARCH Project's final conference, taking place in Southampton on 14th & 15th March 2023

A group of hill farmers  has created a pioneering  environmental cooperative to protect against the effects of climate change and boost wildlife, alongside sustainable livestock production.

Welsh farms have significantly increased populations of farmland birds since growing seed-bearing cover crops and providing feeding stations containing supplementary seed.

A full-day symposium examining the conservation of Scotland’s four grouse species – red grouse, black grouse, capercaillie and ptarmigan – is taking place on 5 May 2023 at Balhousie Castle, Perth.

In the next fortnight, thousands of farmers and land managers across the UK will be taking half an hour out to observe and record the wild birds that share their land, as the tenth GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count gets under way.