Biodiversity [SS.EF.B]
Tree Relocation: Allargue Estate
Allargue estate has been family owned for over 300 years and is positioned on roughly 2400 hectares (ha) of upland habitats, of which 115 ha is forestry. The estate offers…
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Natural Capital – Bees, Butterflies and Biodiversity
We begin our second series of Natural Capital exploring Bees, Butterflies and Biodiversity with Dr Lorna Cole, an agricultural ecologist whose work addresses the challenge of feeding our growing world…
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Thrill of the Hill – A Damming Conclusion?
Episode #12 – A Damming Conclusion? Beavers are a keystone species and their presence in Scotland could go a long way to achieving land landscape scale nature restoration that Scottish…
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Species-Rich Grasslands
Species-rich grasslands are particularly valuable for wildlife and support a variety of rare species of plants and insects. Despite their value, we have lost approximately 97% of these grasslands. With…
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Grazing for Profit and Biodiversity: Grazing Strategies
Equally important to both profit and biodiversity as pasture composition, is the way in which we graze the pasture with livestock. Grazing duration, intensity and rest impacts profit drivers (pasture…
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Grazing for Profit and Biodiversity at Peelham
In this video, Denise and Angus Walton discuss how developing a rotational grazing system combined with deferred grazing for cattle wintering has seen a multitude of benefits for both farm…
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Grazing for Profit and Biodiversity: Multi-Species Swards
This factsheet looks at the wide range of benefits multi-species swards can bring for farm profitability and biodiversity including improved stock and pasture productivity on less inputs, resilience during drought…
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