Habitat/Land Management

This section contains GAP information leaflets and reports on the effects of grazing on landscapes and habitats including managing wet grasslands for birds and woodland grazing.

Please note: We are currently in the process of reviewing and updating all our publications and we cannot currently guarantee the accuracy of all the content. Please contact the GAP office if you have any queries or concerns.

Report from Stiperstones grazing seminar: Stiperstones NNR, Shropshire

Report from Stiperstones grazing seminar: Stiperstones NNR, Shropshire

Held in partnership between GAP, English Nature, Shropshire Local Grazing Scheme and Shropshire Wildlife Trust at Stiperstones NNR in 2007, this meeting looked at developing grazing partnerships and moorland restoration work involving Hebridean sheep and Exmoor ponies.

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Pulborough Brooks Report. Managing wet grasslands for birds.

Pulborough Brooks Report. Managing wet grasslands for birds.

Report from a workshop organised by GAP and the RSPB at Pulborough Brooks in Feb 2006. Contains information on managing wet grassland for birds, dealing with grazing and other forms of land management.

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How Animals Use the Landscape

How Animals Use the Landscape

Looks at how animals adapt to their environment and the different aspects to be taken into consideration when introducing livestock into a landscape.

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GAP Woodland Grazing Workshop Report, Neroche Project, Blackdown Hills

GAP Woodland Grazing Workshop Report, Neroche Project, Blackdown Hills

This 2005 report looks at establishing and running grazing projects in wooded areas. It includes an outline of the research and literature on woodland grazing as well as a list of key contacts for woodland grazing projects around the UK.

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