Tag: Wildlife

Results show 1,400 people – a 40% increase on last year – recorded 140 species over 1 million acres in the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) initiative which took place between February 8th to 17th

An objective of the Farming for the Future project is to provide landowner training in environmental farm management. One way we’d like to deliver this is to offer a limited number subsidised places on PA courses and FACTS through recognised training providers.

Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE) will be relaunched as Championing the Farmed Environment to begin a new phase of its development.

The government’s 25-year Environment

FARMERS, facilitators, advisors, policy makers and those passionate about wildlife will be heading to The Birmingham & Midland Institute for the second Farmer Cluster Conference on November 1st.

The big butterfly count is a nationwide survey aimed at helping us assess the health of our environment.

From today (10 March 2017) farmers and land managers can apply for the Mid Tier and Higher Tier of Countryside Stewardship

The ‘State of Nature 2016’ report on trends in UK wildlife between 1970 and 2013 concluded that, across all taxa, 56% of species have declined in this period in all major habitats except urban and marine environments.

This June the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) will launch a new Woodland Management training day in Leicestershire. The event is hosted and organised by the GWCT research and demonstration farm, the Allerton Project, and the GWCT advisory service. GWCT are teaming up with the Woodland Trust, Kings and the Forestry Commission to deliver […]

Tim Bevan, Soil Association Farm Advisor fills us in on what to look out for when applying to the Countryside Stewardship scheme. The main objective of the new Countryside Stewardship scheme is to improve the farmed environment for wildlife and to reduce diffuse water pollution.