Waterwise ‘The Great British Water Watch (GBWW) is a citizen science project run by Waterwise to collect information on household water use. Sign me up! Please send my GBWW Pack Members of your household will be citizen scientists collecting information on your water use for 1 week. You will be sent your Great British Water Watch Pack, […]
Coastal Communities Fund annual progress report 2016 Report on the achievements and progress of the Coastal Communities Fund in its first 4 years 2012 to 2016. The Coastal Communities Fund was set up by the government to support the economic development of coastal communities by promoting sustainable economic growth and jobs. This is the third annual […]
The marine renewable energy industry is bringing increased investment and jobs to Wales and this is demonstrated in a new report from the Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum & Marine Energy Wales. The new report “Marine Energy in Wales: Investment, Jobs, Supply Chain 2017” highlights the findings of an industry survey carried out by Marine Energy Wales […]
The awareness of this unregulated fishery is growing rapidly and the work the Angling Trust has done shows some worrying anomalies in the basic fishery data. Whichever figures are used it is not an insignificant fishery. The Norwegian work on comparisons between MPA no take areas and the unprotected coast begin to highlight impacts. IFCAs […]
Amy Wardlaw, MMO, ‘The MMO is seeking to continue work with the fishing industry on the Fully Documented Fisheries (FDF) scheme – looking at ways of tackling the problem of discarding fish. On behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) we’ve been running the Fully Documented Fishery scheme with industry since […]
Greenpeace ‘Monday 10th April, 2017. London – This morning Greenpeace activists have installed a 2.5 tonne ocean plastic sculpture on the doorstep of Coca-Cola’s London HQ, in protest at the company’s role in ocean plastic pollution. The artwork, Plasticide, was created by renowned underwater sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor and features seabirds regurgitating plastic amidst a family beach picnic. […]
And so it begins. What was always going to be a difficult process starts very badly – the draft 25 year environment plan has been leaked. This is not going to be a comfortable time for Defra Ministers and officials since the reactions so far have been from complimentary. ClientEarth chief executive James Thornton told […]
Blueprint response to the Government’s strategic priorities and objectives for Ofwat April 2017 Blueprint for Water is a unique coalition of environmental, water efficiency, fisheries and angling organisations and a campaign of Wildlife and Countryside Link. ‘We welcome the opportunity to engage with Defra on the Strategic Policy Statement (SPS) to Ofwat. We are pleased […]