There are a number of new documents on the Defra website relating to water and habitats – ponds, lakes, ditches etc., which seem to have been released to support the sustainable farming initiative. Create ponds and lakes Find out how land managers can create new clean freshwater ponds and lakes to benefit wildlife and improve […]
Key Sustainable Ocean Summit 2020 Outputs/Recommendations Session 1: Implementing the Vision of Ocean and Climate Data Collection by Industry: SMART Ocean- SMART Industries in Support of SDG 14 and the U.N. Decade of Ocean Science Session 2: Arctic Sustainable Development: Impacts of Changing Environmental Conditions on Shipping Operational Risk Session 3: Asian Shipping and Shipbuilding: […]
Leaders of 14 major maritime nations announced on December 02, 2020, their commitment to achieve 100% sustainable ocean management of their national waters by 2025, acting on recommendations of a group of global experts co-chaired by Oregon State University marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco. “This is the result of nearly three years of work and represents […]
Last week Dan Laffoley and large international team set out their ideas for a new ocean narrative … close on their heals comes another one. Executive Summary ‘The New Ocean Narrative Billions of people have personal connections to the ocean. For many people living in coastal communities, the ocean is not only a source of […]
Members of the public have an opportunity through purchasing power to help fishermen who fish in small boats around our shores, usually in the most sustainable of ways. They are the life and soul of communities and are vital to the management of our marine protected areas. So far the call to purchase fish locally has […]
Where did all the cod go? Fishing crisis in the North Sea’ The article highlights the increasing importance of the Marine Stewardship Council and Marine Conservation Society on their assessments of sustainability Oceana: ‘The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has announced today the collapse of the North Sea cod population, and has recommended […]
The Environmental Audit Committee published its sustainable seas report in January calling for action by Government to end the use of seas as a sewer, and criticising its ‘out of sight, out of mind’ approach. Recommendations focused on tackling threats to marine life from climate change, overfishing and pollution – especially the risk of long-term […]
The RSPB has just released a major review of the state of the UK’s coastal habitats called Sustainable Shores It sets out why our coastal habitats are so important to people and wildlife; what has been lost already; what may be lost in the future due to sea level rise and what we can do […]