How many pollinators visit your farm?

Catherine Jones, from Farm Wildlife highlights why pollinating insects are so important for farming and wildlife on farmland and recommends a quick and simple method for monitoring them. In the UK,...
Butterflies at Hope Farm - latest results

Read the latest update on the butterfly surveys carried out on Hope Farm here If you're on Twitter, there's a great video with Senior Research Assisstant Derek Gruar on our @RSPBScience channel, who...
A bountiful year for butterflies?

Farmland butterflies benefited from the best summer weather for seven years, a survey has revealed. The Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS), which assesses the fortunes of common and widespread...
Why Farm Visits Really Matter?

Today we have a brilliant guest blog by Justine Hards from LEAF , getting to the heart of the importance of farm visits. “What people do not understand, they do not value; what they do not value...
Case study: Creating bare ground for butterflies and moths

Matterley is a 2400 acre mixed farm with 200 dairy cattle and 1100 acres of arable including wheat, barley and oilseed rape. The farm has been in Higher Level Stewardship since 2014, and forms part of...