Cultural differences the Devon humpback which has been drawing huge crowds had to be rescued by volunteers from British Divers Marine Life Rescue, whilst Norway announces its plans to kill more minke whales. Whale & Dolphin Conservation ‘REALLY, NORWAY, YOU WANT TO KILL EVEN MORE WHALES THOUGH NO ONE WANTS TO EAT THEM? ‘Norwegian Fisheries […]
The latest in the series of growing fines for water company pollution Thames Water has been hit with a record fine of £20.3m after huge leaks of untreated sewage into the Thames and its tributaries and on to land, including the popular Thames path. The prolonged leaks led to serious impacts on residents, farmers and wildlife, killing […]
The Green Alliance added its voice to that of the Environmental Audit Committee highlighting the ongoing delay to the release of Agriculture and Environment 25 year plans. We seem to be in the phoney war phase of Brexit, the calm before the storm, when nothing is appearing. These two documents are crucial to the Brexit […]
Natural measures to prevent floods valuable but not ‘a silver bullet’, say researchers Oxford Martin restatement finds claims that natural flood management will alleviate the worst floods are not supported by scientific evidence. Natural measures to manage flooding from rivers can play a valuable role in flood prevention, but a lack of monitoring means their […]
CCC warns MPs over lack of data on UK critical infrastructure assets at risk of flooding The Environmental Audit Committee held a one off session on climate change adaptation in light of the recent publication of the Government’s Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017. This assessment draws primarily on the independent Evidence Report commissioned from the CCC’s Adaptation […]
The UK River Prize is back for 2017 following another successful running of the prize in 2016 where the Rivers Eden, Derwent and Kent – “Cumbria Rivers” were announced as the winners. The prize will follow a similar format with finalists going through to the UK River Prize Awards Evening. The Awards Evening will once again be […]
WWT have launched an online survey to gather evidence about the multiple benefits that wetlands can provide as components of natural capital and green infrastructure. We are specifically focusing on examples of: Natural flood management Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) Coastal managed realignment Constructed treatment wetlands (or other wetlands designed to improve water quality) Survey: www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/workingwetlands […]
Timed perfectly to coincide with MMO’s quota documentation on this the New Economics Foundation report explores how this process is undertaken by different European countries. Griffin Carpenter: Fish stocks are owned by no one but desired by many. How, then, should access to fish stocks be determined? In the EU, member states have answered this question very […]