• What butterflies, and how many visit your farm?
    Zoë Randle from Butterfly Conservation highlights why butterflies are so important for farming and wildlife on farmland and recommends the RSPB Farmland Butterfly Survey method for monitoring them. This...
  • Counting bumblebees for the ‘Volunteer Monitoring of Farm Wildlife’ project
    This year, the RSPB is piloting the Volunteer Monitoring of Farm Wildlife (VMFW) project. Below is a diary account from one of our volunteer surveyors, Lynne Roberts. We are told that our farmland ecosystems...
  • New plans for Farm Wildlife
    A new and updated plan for arable farms has been developed by the Farm Wildlife partnership, and is now available on the website - www.farmwildlife.info . This plan brings together the knowledge and expertise...
  • Report of the 2019 Butterfly and Bumblebee monitoring at Hope Farm, the effectiveness of our Wildlife-Friendly farming.
    Paul Cabrisy, research intern at RSPB Hope Farm, tells us about the outcome of our butterfly and bumblebee surveys throughout the monitoring seasons this year. The butterfly monitoring. Summer 2019...
  • Hairstreaks and brocades at Hope Farm
    Much of the biodiversity monitoring that takes place at Hope Farm is focused on birds, as you would expect. Fifteen years of breeding and wintering bird surveys has shown just how well birds have recovered...