26 Aug 2015
As pressure on water supplies increase due to population growth, climate change, and the need to protect the environment, wider measures to manage leakage need to be deployed. CIWEM’s new statement outlines the key issues for both customers and the environment: performance measures, economic considerations and new technological developments. Visibility of some leaks and coverage […]
26 Aug 2015
Last week the government released details of new areas for drilling applications (including 53 Sites of Special Scientific Interest, backtracking on an earlier promise) and made a surprising announcement to “call-in” local decisions that were taking too long. But a lot has changed over the past eight years and opponents should still feel hopeful. The […]
24 Aug 2015
WDC: ‘The findings of a new government report into the causes of a mass stranding of pilot whales in the Kyle of Durness, Scotland in 2011 have revealed that military exercises in the area at the time were the probable cause of the deaths of 20 whales. In July 2011, WDC staff assisted BDMLR in a long […]
24 Aug 2015
Sarah Brown ‘Assessing and measuring marine tourism and recreational activities in notoriously difficult. This marine tourism and recreation survey in Scotland being organised on behalf of Marine Scotland is a ground breaking, ambitious survey providing spatial data for the NMPi platform and the emerging marine planning partnerships. So far we have had more than 850 […]
24 Aug 2015
MCS ‘After evidence emerged of a scallop dredger towing in a protected area, the Scottish Government has put in place an urgent Marine Conservation Order (MCO) to safeguard fragile seabed habitats off Wester Ross in northwest Scotland. From midnight Monday 17th August, all forms of dredging, including for scallops, have been prohibited in the Wester Ross Marine […]
24 Aug 2015
Scientists from Bangor University, working together with the Welsh Fishermen’s Association, Welsh Government and Natural Resources Wales have published their findings from the world’s largest ever fishing impact study, funded in part by the European Fishery Fund. Cardigan Bay Special Area of Conservation (SAC) was closed to scallop fishing in 2009. Research led by Bangor […]
24 Aug 2015
Text in post: Citizen science is becoming widely recognised as the report from this Scottish conference reflects. It is also providing invaluable insights into jellyfish ecology and enabling the remarkable strandings of barrel jellyfish to be recorded systematically. Citizen Science – Scottish report on a range of projects Public involvement in monitoring our environment is […]
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