‘This is a robust recipe’: the experimental farm bucking the decline in UK birds

The Guardian ·First reported 1h ago

Allerton Project attracts abundant wildlife and its success can offers clues to reversing the sharp drop in populations Farmer Alastair Leake is standing in a field of sprouting winter wheat, pointing at his experiment. One side was ploughed before…

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‘This is a robust recipe’: the experimental farm bucking the decline in UK birds

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