Nick southerton game conservancy

Second, insecticide applications can kill the chick food insects directly. The net result is a diminution in the supply of insect food for grey partridge chicks. The relative impact of herbicides and insecticides has shifted with time.

In the s the use of herbicides was most damaging. By the late s the growing use of insecticides had meant this group of chemicals was also crucially important in harming insect abundance. The Game Conservancy Trust has focused on producing workable solutions to these problems. Its research identified that insects numbers tended to be highest at the field edges.

This was also where grey partridge chicks fed most. The Trust combined both elements and devised the Conservation Headland. The Conservation Headland is a narrow - six metre - selectively sprayed strip at the crop. This allows important broad-leaved weed species to flourish and hence encourages. These insects are vital food items for grey partridge.

Studies have shown that Conservation Headlands are capable of restoring levels of grey. The added incentive for farmers is that profits can be maintained as a field. While grey partridge numbers are declining nationally many farms and estates which have adopted Conservation Headlands enjoy stable grey partridge populations.

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Cal Coast Foundation makes awards to 31 teachers. Humane Society gives out pet supplies North County School News, Jan. In Nick became Head of Farmland Ecology, where he developed further influential agri-environment measures such as wild bird cover crops to provide winter food for farmland birds.

He ran the Lowlands team as Research Director before taking on the role of Director of Research in , leading a team of 60 scientists. His research interests in recent years have included farmland ecology, sub-lethal impacts of pesticides on non-target species, and the mitigation of the impacts of intensive agriculture on the environment.

Since then he has lectured in 20 universities and colleges around the UK, mainly to MSc students studying natural sciences. Since then he has worked in the Uplands and Lowlands research teams, on black grouse and capercaillie projects in Scotland, the Upland Predation Experiment in Northumberland, and work to quantify the effects of gamebird releasing on woodland wildlife.

He initiated the first national survey of breeding woodcock in and, as Head of Wetland Research, he has worked on woodcock migration, assessing the effectiveness of agri-environment measures for lapwings, reversing wader declines in the Avon Valley and on links between breeding and winter habitats for curlew, lapwing and oystercatcher using GPS tracking. Using research to provide policy makers and practitioners with solutions to conservation issues is at the core of what the GWCT does.

Notes to editors. We advise farmers and landowners on improving wildlife habitats. We employ 22 post-doctoral scientists and 50 other research staff with expertise in areas such as birds, insects, mammals, farming, fish and statistics. We undertake our own research as well as projects funded by contract and grant-aid from Government and private bodies.

The Trust is also responsible for a number of Government Biodiversity Action Plan species and is lead partner for grey partridge and joint lead partner for brown hare and black grouse. For information, contact: Kate Williams Telephone: Email: press gwct.

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