Farmland birds in peril, but could nature friendly farming provide the solution?

Another fresh from the press blog this time with Alice Groom, RSPB Senior Policy Officer working to ensure policies reward nature friendly farming. The latest Birds of Conservation Concern Report...
The New Environmental Land Management Scheme: putting life back in the countryside?

In the week when Meurig Raymond succeeded Peter Kendall as the President of the NFU (see here ), Defra has announced (see here ) more details about how farmers will be rewarded to protect the environment...
No time to pause in the quest for a nature positive farming system

(c) rspb-images.com This blog is written by Alice Groom, the RSPB’s Head of Sustainable Land Policy for England, and explores what impact the pausing the phase out of direct payments to farmers would...
Environmental Land Management: the outlook for nature-friendly farming in England

Guest blog by Alice Groom, Senior Policy Officer Defra set out a robust and ambitious vision for domestic agricultural policies in the Health and Harmony consultation in 2018. Central to this was a...
Clues about how government plans to recover farmland birds

Thanks to Wednesday's parliamentary debate on farmland birds, we now have a few more clues about how the Government will be rolling our the new Common Agriculture Policy package in England. Sir John...