Archive for August, 2015
Great Bustard Tracking Appeal
Posted on Monday, August 10th, 2015 by Alex Stott
For the past few weeks, recipe we’ve been running an appeal to help raise funds to track the movements of the birds in the wild. You can read more about the appeal at: http://thecrowdfundingcentre.com/?page=project&id=86FF48 and read about how the system will work. From the CrowdFunder appeal: Releasing the Great Bustards in the UK, seeing the […]
Great Bustard update August 2015
Posted on Thursday, August 6th, 2015 by Alex Stott
As the harvests come in the older birds have suddenly become much more visible. Great Bustards do thrive in areas where there is little or even no grassland, advice however grazed grassland does provide a shorter sward than arable areas during the summer months, this and this is perhaps when grassland is most likely to […]
International Conservation Expert Calls In.
Posted on Wednesday, August 5th, 2015 by Alex Stott
Last week we were delighted to receive George Archibald on what has become an annual visit to the GBG. George is the founder of the International Crane Foundation (ICF) and a International Conservation hero. Rarely he is also one whose achievements are based on real conservation initiatives and achievements, ask not on being a broadcasting […]