The following statement was made by the Secretary of State for DEFRA, George Eustice MP, in parliament on Thursday: Statement In May 2018, Defra commissioned Julian Glover and an independent panel to consider how we might improve the management of our National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs). Their report, the Landscapes Review,…
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Climate Change Committee 2021 report
The massively impressive latest report by the Climate Change Committee was published on Thursday. I will never read all of it – who will? But I have skimmed through som parts of it and my eye alighted on this rap over DEFRA’s knuckles on their inadequate measures to limit damage to peatlands from burning; That…
Letter to my MP
Dear Mr Pursglove I hope you are well, This email is to keep you informed about some matters which mean a lot to me – as your website suggests I should. On Monday there are two environmental subjects being discussed in Parliament that are of concern for me: driven grouse shooting and the Environment Bill,…
Letter to the Royal Family
I was one of many signatories to this letter – click here – asking the Royal Family to rewild some of their landholdings. You could write too – see here. This would be quite a good place to start, and would have massive knock-on impacts locally;
An interesting paper
This paper, open access, was published overnight. The Summary does, unusually for a scientific paper, sum it up!