The UN Biodiversity conference held last week concluded and issued a declaration under the theme “Ecological Civilization: Building a shared future for all life on Earth”. Click here Is “ecological civilization” just another slogan and what might it mean in practice? Click here Whilst recognising that some progress has been made in the last decade […]
An inquiry by the House of Lords International Relations & Defence Committee. The inquiry will consider the extent to which the UNCLOS it is fit for purpose in 2021. It will examine the enforcement of UNCLOS, its dispute resolution mechanisms, and the extent to which is has proved able to adapt to new and emerging […]
Bass is one of the most valuable fish available to most commercial shore netters and therefore a key driver for them. The 2017 ban on shore netters landing bass reduced commercial shore netting activity and thereby reduced bass mortality however this has now been reversed. The revised legislation on the prohibition on landing and selling […]
The Earthshot Prize is designed to incentivise change and help to repair our planet over the next ten years. It is centred around five ‘Earthshots’ – simple but ambitious goals for our planet which, if achieved by 2030, will improve life for us all, for generations to come. Five, one million-pound prizes will be awarded […]
Spending a month on St Kilda during the summer, Connie Tremlett and Mark Bolton were tasked by Marine Scotland (funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund) to deploy tiny GPS tracking devices on the Leaches Storm Petrel to give information on where the important feeding grounds are, and where the birds might interact with […]
The world’s biodiversity has fallen below the ‘safe limit’, researchers suggest, as habitat destruction and agriculture take their toll on nature. Ahead of the 2021 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15), Click here the Natural History Museum has launched the Biodiversity Trends Explorer, an online tool that will allow everyone, from members of the public to […]
The latest inshore fisheries flare up between the UK and the EU over the issuing/or not of fishing licenses. Almost 1,700 EU vessels licences have now been licensed to fish in UK waters, 117 of these in the 6-12 nautical mile zone. However, of the 47 applications made for vessels under 12m in length to […]
The UK Parliament’s All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)on Microplastics works to raise awareness of the effects of microplastics on the environment discussing issues related to microplastics and steps needed to tackle the issue and prevent harmful impacts on the environment, riverine and marine life and human health. In this first report, the Group has been focussing […]