'This is a robust recipe': the experimental farm bucking the decline in UK birds
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The Allerton Project farm in Leicestershire-Rutland has increased farm bird abundance by 145% since 1992, bucking a 23% national decline over the same period by using no-till planting, habitat creation and sustainable agriculture methods that keep seeds, earthworms and insects accessible to feeding birds.
Results from one 320-hectare demonstration farm; wider adoption across UK agriculture would require policy and farmer uptake.
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