Landowners covering more than a third of Yorkshire’s land area gathered at Cloth Hall in Leeds recently to discuss how changes to land management can help tackle the challenge of climate change. Facilitated by Yorkshire Water, the county’s second largest landowner, the inaugural Yorkshire Land Anchor Network Event included representatives from organisations such as the […]
The Fisheries Improvement Programme Roger Handford Environment Agency Anglers often ask us about how we spend the money raised from the sale of fishing licences. Whenever faced with this question, I pause to reflect on the wide range of activities this income pays for in order to protect and improve fish stocks and fisheries. Our […]
Don Catchment Rivers Trust are proud to announce that they have been awarded the Prix Charles Ritz for the ‘Living Heritage of the River Don’ project. The award is given to individuals or organisations who make a difference to the rivers they cherish, exhibiting the utmost devotion and commitment to the environment, and celebrates those who champion river improvement […]
SEA-CHANGERS LAUNCHES COASTAL FOUNTAIN FUND The Sea-Changers Coastal Fountain Fund 2020 will support groups and organisations around the UK who wish to install water bottle refill stations on beaches. The programme aims to tackle the increasing problem of plastic bottles left behind along the coasts as marine litter, damaging the marine environment and the […]
Rebecca Pow has now made two speeches on the Government’s intentions in the marine environment, the first at Coastal Future 2020 and last week at a Greenpeace launch of an animated film. It is ironic that Greenpeace have recently been included on Police anti-terrorist list discovered by the Guardian. In describing 2020 as ‘marine super […]
New Economics Foundation – Chris Williams ‘We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.’ This quote from Albert Einstein is worth considering in our collective response to the nature and climate crisis. Whether its fires in the Amazon and Australia, Hurricanes in the Bahamas or flooding in Yorkshire and Venice, evidence of the scale and urgency […]
Steve Hull, ABPmer: ‘Offshore wind expansion in UK waters is facing constraints by the EU Birds & Habitats Directives, which set acceptability standards for impacts to Special Protection Areas and Special Areas of Conservation, particularly in relation to potential impacts to seabirds. Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies are now advising that, based on current scientific understanding […]
Guardian ‘Treat coastal erosion as a natural catastrophe, UK ministers urged East Yorkshire councillors bemoan lack of national guidance and funding Ministers have been urged to step in to help families whose homes are at imminent risk of collapsing into the sea on the fastest-eroding coastline in northern Europe. Residents in the Yorkshire village of […]