We are recruiting 4 new jobs FWAG SouthWest come work with our amazing team in #Gloucestershire. Please apply! Please share thank you

Today WWF UK launch Land of Plenty, showing how regen ag can deliver more for Net Zero than previously thought. We call on governments to support farmers to accelerate nature-friendly farming across the UK to reach #NetZero and restore critical habitats. wwf.org.uk/updates/land-o…

📢Call for volunteers, Gloucestershire! We will be at Bredon Hill, next Wednesday 23rd February. You will learn about hedges and be involved in planting, led by a FWAG instructor. If you are free and would like to be involved, please get in touch... fwagsw.org.uk/Event/hedges-c…

We've learnt a huge amount over the last year using a thermal imager to survey farms in the Cotswolds. Our main interest is Woodcock & we've identified a number of nocturnal feeding hotspots, mainly old pasture but also stubble. Farmers very engaged & keen to protect sites (1/4)

Great success for our # farming in the protected Landscapes project. Our joint venture with #CPRE AND #Soroptomists of Cirencester planted over 4km of hedge and 440 trees in Gloucestershire, with 75 volunteers.

GRASSLANDS! They are so important for our ecology/wildlife. With some good hedges/scrub around them/in them they create an amazing habitat. They are part of the EDGE. The edge habitat where 90% of our terrestrial species reside. You read that right - 90%

1/20 Out today Science Magazine HARNESSING THE POTENTIAL OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR MITIGATING AND ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE, in which I summarise recent research on #naturebasedsolutions & highlight key areas for future research. A 🧵 👉science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

As always, reporting on food, farming & the environment so riddled with errors as to be an impediment to the grown up national conversation we should have been having since 2016. 1) Nothing has been announced (except some cancelled meetings). bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

.Country Land & Business Assn represents not nature organisations but farmers and landowners managing approximately half of all our land. Here is the CLA’s punchy statement calling on the government to stay the course on rolling out the vital Environmental Land Management scheme.

NEWS: Researchers have shown for the first time that less intensively managed British grazed grasslands have on average 50% more plant species and better soil health than intensively managed grassland ceh.ac.uk/press/less-int…

'Agroecology has the potential to tackle major planetary challenges, including climate change, food insecurity, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem degradation.' Check out this new evidence review - agroecology for food system transformation 👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This study finds that organic-style agroecological farming could feed a whopping *14 billion people* on existing global farmland - without fossil fuel-based fertilisers, and avoiding further 'agricultural sprawl'. 🤯 nature.com/articles/s4301…

Funding for farmland wildlife a thread🧵 On Monday Lizzie Hulton-Harrop went to Downing Street to speak at the Mobilising Nature Finance event and raised concerns about how this funding model is developing and the potential negative impacts for wildlife and family farms ⬇️

We get the food system we pay for. Without making any moral judgement on current production practices, the reason intensive poultry production takes the form it does is because of relentless pressure to be ever-cheaper, from retailers & consumers. 1/3 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Farm Woodland Creation walk and talk with FWAG Dorset Tue 28th Nov 2023 10am - 12.30pm Winterbourne Herringston, DT2 9PU Hot drinks and lunch inc Please book your place using the link below or call the FWAG office on 01823 660684 fwagsw.org.uk/Event/farm-woo…