Published on: 16 September 2016
At the beginning of September, more than 9,000 experts descended on the Hawaii Convention Center on the Pacific island of Oahu for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s 6th World Conservation Congress. The triennial 10-day Congress is the largest global forum focussed specifically on addressing the challenges facing nature and wildlife.
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NGOs are oft-criticised for crying wolf. Yet time-scales of people’s lives are extremely short relative to the geological change that occurs on the planet. Adaptation and evolution are extremely slow, clumsy processes that take time to catch up with environmental conditions.
Read More...Published on: 1 September 2016
The Environment Department recently published an obituary to farmland wildlife. Defra’s Natural Environment Indicators showed long and short-term decline in birds and butterflies and rapid short-term deterioration of water quality across the country.
Read More...Published on: 17 August 2016
When it comes to farming and the environment it feels like Governments have been tinkering at the margins for a long time. Public money paid to farmers through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has done a decent job in recent years helping farmers to make field edges places that can support wildlife: improving hedgerows, field margins and encouraging wildlife...
Read More...Published on: 9 August 2016
With the housing crisis and economic growth at the forefront of politicians and policy makers’ minds the planning system has been in a constant state of flux over the last few years. Our impending ‘Brexit’ from the EU promises yet more change ahead.
Read More...Published on: 3 August 2016
On the 13 July 2016 the European Commission adopted the first EU list of 37 invasive alien species (IAS), the associated restrictions and obligations of which will come into force on 3 August 2016 in the UK.
Read More...Published on: 2 August 2016
Whilst there is a whole list of Donald Rumsfeld known unknowns to be sorted out before the UK can trigger Article 50, let alone leave the EU, we do have a certain amount of clarity on the scale of the issue facing us on animal welfare.
Read More...Published on: 1 August 2016
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