Twenty-five thousand jobs could be created through government investment in a green recovery Investment in nature recovery could provide a major boost in employment in England and help create a more resilient economy as part of a green economic recovery from Covid-19 according to new figures put together by conservation groups. In addition, it would…
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
Press release – UK now values nature more by National Trust
UK values nature more as a result of lockdown, according to summer solstice poll A third of adults are more interested in nature as a result of lockdown More than half say they plan to make a habit of spending time in nature ‘when things go back to normal’ Just over two thirds of adults…
Press release – Langholm Initiative
First £1m secured for community’s dream of huge nature reserve The Scottish Land Fund has awarded the Langholm Initiative charity £1 million towards the purchase of 10,500 acres of Langholm Moor in the south of Scotland, which would see the local community creating a vast new nature reserve. The charity hopes to buy the wildlife-rich and culturally…
Press release – Scottish Rewilding Alliance
SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT VOTE A BLOW TO ENDING BEAVER DEATHS The Scottish Rewilding Alliance welcomes the attempt by Mark Ruskell MSP to amend the Animals & Wildlife (Penalties, Protections and Powers) (Scotland) Bill to require the government ensure ‘favourable conservation status’ for Scotland’s beavers before issuing lethal control licences. The attempted amendment followed the announcement by…
Press release – National Trust acquires gateway to Lorna Doone country
Charity acquires gateway to Lorna Doone’s Exmoor Legendary landscape acquired to protect nature and benefit people Scenes from the novel can be discovered in the landscape Every penny donated or spent on site will be used for wildlife projects in the area Landscape purchased before coronavirus crisis The National Trust has announced its acquisition of…
National Trust for Scotland
Save our Scotland, by saving the National Trust for Scotland (of which I am a member). And there isn’t any coyness about the ask or the reason for it: The important thing there is ‘now and for the future’, I think. That projected loss of £28m is from a recent income of around £60m –…
The marvellous BBS – marvellous for mammals
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It’s nearly time for me to carry out the ‘late’ bird survey on my other BBS square. I wonder what I’ll find. I’m one of the BBS recorders who notes mammals as well as birds on my transect walks. I don’t see much, but the occasional Brown Hare or Rabbit is added to the recording…
Guest blog – Wildflower-rich road verges – the botanists’ Hen Harrier? by Kevin Walker
Kevin Walker is a botanist who leads on science, monitoring and data management for the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Before that he spent 12 glorious years working as a plant ecologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood, although much of that time was spent away carrying out fieldwork. Although his…
Press release – Global species extinction target proposed
Press release: New species extinction target proposed for global nature rescue plan The upcoming future strategy for conserving biodiversity must include a prominent target to lower extinction rates, say scientists. Biodiversity loss has continued unabated at an alarming rate, and so far, action to deliver on the global agreements in place has failed to prevent…
Press release – Wimpole Home Farm successes by National Trust
Farming for nature pays off for Wimpole Rare farmland bird numbers double in six years Invertebrate numbers increase by over a third in 13 years Farmland sequesters high levels of carbon while producing food and making a profit Nature and soil health are flourishing at the National Trust’s Wimpole Home Farm near Cambridge according to…