Websites and Links
Websites & Links
Clicking these links will take you to websites and resurces outside this site
- Chillingham Wild Cattle Association
Website about the unique herd of wild cattle in the park at Chillingham, considered to be the sole survivors of herds that once roamed the forests of Britain.
- Clinical Veterinary Toxicology
A good resource for information on the toxicity of plants and herbicides.
- Conservation Evidence.com
Aims to make conservation more effective by sharing knowledge as to which management interventions work and which do not. Information includes case studies and summaries of journal articles.
- ECOLOTS
Eco-Lots is a free service designed to help the rural economy by assisting with the environmentally sensitive and sustainable management of land, trees and wildlife in the UK. It seeks to do this by providing free online advertising for sales, wants and events covering a wide range of rural products and services.
- Equine Conservation Grazing
Includes an online discussion forum, information about equine welfare, an information booklet on Ragwort (available as a pdf file to download) and a list of ponies available for conservation grazing.
- European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism (EFNCP)
The European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism (EFNCP) is a Europe-wide network which raises awareness of the importance of low-intensity farming for nature conservation and aims to improve the way public policies respond to the needs of these farming systems.
- European Livestock Alliance
ELA was formed in 2001 to provide effective representation for European animal breeders, keepers and food producers.
- EUROSITE
Eurosite is now the largest network of organisations devoted to nature conservation management across Europe. Its goal is to enhance European nature conservation, through both the management of land and water and through the dissemination of practical information
- Farm Wildlife
Helping you to help wildlife on your farm - includes case studies, discussion forum, events and information library. Participating organisations are the Game Conservancy, Linking Environment and Farming and RSPB.
- Flora Locale
Flora Locale encourages the wise use of native flora for planting schemes that have wildlife in mind, across Ireland and the British Isles, encouraging good practice among native flora suppliers, land managers and plant specifiers involved in large-scale habitat creation and restoration projects in the countryside.
- Forest Friendly Farming
An initiative of the New Forest National Park Authoriting developing practical ways of supporting farming, commoning and woodland management in the New Forest. Includes local producers markets selling beef, advice on sustainable land management, making contacts to find grazing and livestock etc.
- Forest Research: Impact of herbivores on woodland ecosystems
The aim of this programme is to improve advice both on reducing the damage caused by large herbivores and on the use of large herbivores as a management tool to achieve biodiversity objectives. Work described includes studies on cattle in pine woodland in Scotland, a survey of cattle grazed woodlands in Britain, and assessment methods for overgrazing in upland woodlands.
- Grasslands Trust
The Grasslands Trust is the only national charity working specifically to protect our wildflower-rich grasslands and they need your help to save what is now Britain’s most threatened habitat.
- Hillcroft Conservation Grazing
Hillcroft Conservation Grazing is a partnership of Rue Ekins and Richard Collingridge. They are both professional ecologists based close to the Hampshire-Dorset border where they run a conservation grazing scheme grazing British Whites on water meadow and overwintering them on heathland.
- Horse Pasture Management Project
Britain's first and only Council supported on-line resource providing horse-keepers with advice on how pastures can be managed not only for the well-being of grazing equines, but also for the benefit of the landscape, environment and wildlife.
- Humane Slaughter Association
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) is the only registered charity that works, in the UK and internationally, through educational, scientific and technical advances, exclusively towards the highest worldwide standards of welfare for food animals during transport, marketing and slaughter.
- Kingcombe Centre
An environmental study centre in the heart of West Dorset. Three old buildings on the banks of the river Hooke in the hamlet of Lower Kingcombe were converted into The Kingcombe Centre which is now owned and run by a charitable trust, The Kingcombe Trust. email office@kingcombecentre.org.uk
- Neroche Landscape Partnership Scheme
- Oostvaardersplassen
A 5600ha reserve in central Netherlands with minimum intervention management. A eutrophic wetland system with a great variety of wildlife and large numbers of semi-wild ponies and cattle.
http://oostvaardersplassen.biofaan.nl/scientificcd/index.html
- Organic Eprints
An international open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture. The archive contains full-text papers in electronic form together with bibliographic information, abstracts and other metadata.
- Organic Information Website
The Scottish Agricultural College have re-launched its organic website. The revised site contains a checklist for farmers looking to convert to organic production, a step by step guide to conversion and other information on the conversion process, plus access to several technical leaflets.
- Pig Paradise Farm
Friendly source of information on rare breed pigs, training courses etc.
- Sheepkeep
A free resource centre developed by the NWD AONB and FWAG designed to help owners of grassland acquire sheep to graze their land. Database also includes cattle, alpacas, goats and ponies.
- The British Grassland Society
A forum for those with an active interest in the science and practice of temperate grassland production and utilization, bringing together research workers, farmers, advisors, teachers and technical members of the agricultural industry.
- The Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation
The Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation was established in 2003 at the University of Birmingham, with the goal of supporting decision making in conservation and environmental management by producing and disseminating systematic reviews on the effectiveness of management and policy interventions.
- The Heather Trust
The Heather Trust is an independent charity dedicated to the promotion of high standards of moorland management.
- The Traditional Breeds Meat Market Company Ltd
committed to organising the supply and promotion of the highest quality meat from pedigree British rare and traditional breeds for the benefit of discerning consumers, selected independent butchers, keepers of rare breeds and most importantly, the conservation of rare breeds themselves.
- VINE Project
For anyone involved in nature conservation, a love of the natural environment is almost an unacknowledged qualification. We take it so much for granted that we often forget to speak about it, a silence that can become inhibiting. It is not always easy to break through these hidden barriers and talk about feelings when the scientific realities are so much safer and easier to quantify. VINE was created as a way of opening up that discussion and reminding ourselves why we cared enough to become involved in the first place. We want to discover our true values, define the things that have inspired us, and find ways of sharing those thoughts with others. Through this, we hope to help develop a philosophy that will provide an ethical basis for the decisions we make about conservation issues in the UK.