Consultation on the Draft South Marine Plans: The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is delighted to announce that the consultation on the Draft South Marine Plans will take place be between 7 November 2016 and 27 January 2017. The consultation gives interested parties the chance to share their views and opinions on the Draft marine plan […]
Seabird Monitoring programme – Since 1986, 25 species of seabird that breed at colonies in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands have been monitored annually by the Seabird Monitoring Programme (SMP). This work is co-ordinated by JNCC in partnership with 18 other organisations and hundreds of volunteers. Britain and Ireland Population Trends […]
MPs from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee are calling for an overhaul of flood management in England to tackle the rising risk to communities from climate change in a report on Future flood prevention. Read the report summary Read the report conclusions and recommendations Read the full report: Future flood prevention Five million people at […]
The Bonfield report first became public in September when the National Resilience Review was published. Since then it has prompted a row between the Environment Agency and the ABI. The reality is that up to now very little of the £1 billion a year the insurance industry has paid out goes towards installing resilience measures […]
Andrea Leadsom might come to rue the day at the Environmental Audit Committee when she said “At our leisure we will be able to repeal, amend and strengthen. For environmental groups I think the certainty of the Great Repeal Bill will be a great comfort to them.” (the eNGOs). This composite of articles sets out […]
Will this change be any more successful in halting the clear declines in biodiversity or will Natural England simply be toothless and without a voice? Natural England’s new strategy indicates a retreat away from enforcement, with less use of regulatory levers, more reliance on partnership working and a “fundamental change” in how its teams are […]
Funding announced for major new wildlife project to reopen the River Severn for fish and wildlife. A major new wildlife project to reopen the mighty River Severn has secured almost £20 million of funding – £10.8 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund and £6 million from the European Union LIFE programme. The scheme will re-open […]
The headlines given to George Eustice’s statement (Oct 30th) seem to be based on the work on the analysis of fisheries data was carried out at the request of the Shetland Fishermen’s Association (SFA) by Ian Napier of the NAFC. The Telegraph piece moves from the bold headline to the relationship with the French in […]