Published on: 19 June 2019
Seamus Girvan, a placement student at Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, highlights the work needed to tackle the scourge of marine litter pollution in Irish and UK seas through the UK Marine Strategy.
Read More...Published on: 18 June 2019
We all wish that chemical pollution of the ocean was ancient history, and that it no longer represented a threat to UK marine wildlife and to the consumption of seafood, but sadly this is not the case.
Read More...Published on: 14 June 2019
RSPB's Gareth Cunningham highlights the plight of UK seabirds and pushes for urgent action in the UK Marine Strategy
Read More...Published on: 13 June 2019
Collecting more data is typically not the top choice when allocating resources for conserving our water environments. But, what if data could do more than just sit in a spreadsheet? What if data could become the thing that connects and drives both local grass-roots management and top-down regulation? At Salmon & Trout Conservation (S&TC) we are launching SmartRivers, an initiative that does just that.
Read More...Published on: 12 June 2019
Sarah Denman from Client Earth calls on UK Governments to make UK Fisheries truly sustainable through the UK Marine Strategy and a strong Fisheries Bill.
Read More...Published on: 6 June 2019
Alice Groom reflects on yesterday’s National Audit Office report on Defra’s future farming and land management programme.
Read More...Published on: 4 June 2019
Calum Duncan reflects on the UK Governments’ failure to safeguard Scotland, and the UKs seabeds, as announced in the UK Marine Strategy and explores whether current conservation measures are sufficient to recover Scotland’s depleted seabed.
Read More...Published on: 31 May 2019
Government have announcement 41 new Marine Conservation Zones so Penny Nelson from WWF discusses the management tools that can be used to ensure the new sites don't just become 'paper parks'
Read More...Published on: 22 May 2019
With underfunding, rising visitor pressure, and extreme weather creating a ‘perfect storm’ of problems for our National Parks, this National Walking Month Carey Davies from the British Mountaineering Council explores how we fix a problem like mending our mountains.
Read More...Published on: 20 May 2019
Faced with a climatic and ecological crisis, there can be no ‘business as normal’ if we want our countryside to survive.
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