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Wildlife

With help from volunteers and wildlife monitors, our farmers use a variety of sensitive farming methods to transform areas of intensively farmed desert into productive farms teeming with wildlife. 

We update these species dependant on yearly reports produced by our wildlife monitors. 

We give the conservation status beneath each species name. Find out more about our sources. 

A few of the noteworthy species on our farms: 

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Green Recovery Challenge Fund grants nearly a quarter of a million pounds to save threatened East Anglian wildlife

Green Recovery Challenge Fund grants nearly a quarter of a million pounds to save threatened East Anglian wildlife

Norfolk Rivers Trust has received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £229,200 for Waterlife Recovery East, a partnership project comprising local NGO’s, Norfolk Rivers Trust, Suffolk Wildlife Trust and Countryside Restoration Trust. Read more

Published: 10th December, 2020

Updated: 22nd January, 2021

Author: Abbie Pearce

CRT Farms receive National Awards

CRT Farms receive National Awards

Five CRT farms has been awarded the Redlist Revival Life on Land Award for the highest density of a particular bird species on their land. Read more

Published: 1st May, 2020

Updated: 2nd May, 2020

Author: Abbie Pearce

Barn owl numbers increase in Cambridge

Barn owl numbers increase in Cambridge

More than 25 years of CRT conservation efforts have increased barn owl numbers on Lark Rise Farm in Cambridgeshire Read more

Published: 15th November, 2019

Updated: 28th April, 2020

Author: Abbie Pearce

Water vole numbers increase

Water vole numbers increase

Conservation efforts in Cambridge increase water vole numbers Read more

Published: 19th September, 2019

Updated: 7th April, 2021

Author: Abbie Pearce

Remember our wildlife on your walks this summer

Remember our wildlife on your walks this summer

Be mindful of wild bird breeding habitats while out in the UK countryside. Read more

Published: 8th July, 2019

Updated: 28th April, 2020

Author: Abbie Pearce

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  • Farmers help fire fighters during devastating blaze at Thursley Common

    Farmers help fire fighters during devastating blaze at Thursley Common

    On Saturday 30th May, a wildfire broke out at Thursley Common, a 20-hectare nature reserve less than four miles (as the crow flies) from CRT’s Pierrepont Farm in Surrey.

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  • Pierrepont Farm is on the map – the Cycling UK map!

    Pierrepont Farm is on the map – the Cycling UK map!

    A new 220-mile cycle route around the ancient country of Wessex and right through CRT’s Pierrepont Farm!

  • CRT Herefordshire Big Farmland Bird Count 2021

    CRT Herefordshire Big Farmland Bird Count 2021

    15/02/2021: Ruth Moss, Herefordshire Wildlife Monitor, was joined by Dr Vince Lea, Head of Wildlife Monitoring to complete the national survey. What did they see?

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    In an interview with Stephen Sackur on BBC World Service HARDtalk, CRT Friend, James Rebanks discusses Sustainable food in a growing world.

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    CRT mentioned in House of Lords

    Baroness Hoey suggests that George Eustice, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs should visit Lark Rise Farm in Cambridgeshire.

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