12 Sep 2017
Various outlets including Utility Week reported that United Utilities has been ordered to pay a fine of £666,000 after pleading guilty to polluting a river with untreated sewage effluent in Greater Manchester. The Environment Agency took the prosecution against the water company after sewage polluted the River Medlock, having a significant impact on the fish […]
11 Sep 2017
100% of the England Coast Path is now either being worked on or complete. Tourists from around the globe will soon be able to step foot on the longest coastal walking route in the world as work is officially underway along every stretch of the England Coast Path. Natural England is now working on 100 per cent […]
11 Sep 2017
Guardian, Damian Carrington, Environment editor: ‘Consumers of tuna from the world’s biggest fishery are being “betrayed” over its sustainability, according to a coalition of scientists, retailers, politicians and campaigners, including Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. The vast Western and Central Pacific fishery provides about half of the world’s skipjack tuna, the type most commonly found in cans on supermarket shelves. […]
07 Sep 2017
A section of Northumberland coastline supporting 200,000 seabirds gets greater protection. The newly designated Northumberland Marine Special Protection Area (SPA) stretches 12 miles from the coastline into the North Sea, and covers an area of more than 120,000 football pitches. It’s the most important site in the UK for Arctic, common and roseate terns, the second […]
06 Sep 2017
Vanity Fair: Not a magazine I usually read but this article highlights what is at stake – much more than any one sector. Wildlife & Countryside Link’s Brexit Digest 12 September 2017 Fears that the Government were going to face a tough vote on the second reading of the EU Withdrawal Bill was put to […]
06 Sep 2017
Key role of human, social & natural capital in Northumbrian Water Group performance report Northumbrian Water Group (NWG), owner of Northumbrian Water and Essex & Suffolk Water, has taken an innovative new approach to annual reporting using the five capitals that organisations depend on to look at their influence and impact in the wider economy, environment […]
06 Sep 2017
UK’s damaged peatlands win new support to tackle climate change A national initiative to conserve the UK’s peatlands has won a five year extension in a bid to stem the threats of climate change and flooding and tackle critical water supply issues. The IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) UK Peatland Programme, a partnership […]
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