05 Jun 2025
Image description: Woodland and bluebells. Image by Charles Miller / Pexels. Irreplaceable habitats threatened by Planning Bill Part Three of Labours’ Planning and Infrastructure Bill has been highly contentious since its introduction, with the UK’s leading nature organisations labelled it “a license to kill” and calling for it to be completely scrapped after the […]
29 Apr 2025
Image description: Three European flags in a line. Image by Marco / Pexels. The European Commission is pushing ahead with a new directive to bring the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement into EU law – a move Fishing Daily reports as an attempt to both show leadership ahead of the UN Ocean Conference […]
29 Apr 2025
A new Official Statistic in Development has been released by JNCC that will track the status of threatened and declining marine habitats and species within the UK. This new indicator provides, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of threatened and declining marine habitats and species in the UK. The statistic has been […]
03 Apr 2025
In one of the largest syntheses of the human impacts on biodiversity ever conducted worldwide, a team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and the University of Zurich looked at terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats, as well as including all groups of organisms, including microbes, fungi, plants, invertebrates, fish, birds […]
03 Dec 2024
A new paper from the London School of Economics highlights how biodiversity net gain (BNG) and natural flood management can be integrated. It highlights that BNG legislation in England presents a key opportunity to unlock funding and innovative solutions that boost urban flood risk management efforts and wider co-benefits. Photo credit: Ellie Burgin […]
06 Nov 2024
There was limited progress at the COP16 Convention on Biological Diversity continues in Colombia, which aimed to agree on how to halt nature decline by 2030. According to the BBC, scientists say there has been an alarming lack of progress in saving nature as the summit, with experts saying the scale of political ambition has […]
05 Nov 2024
The world’s largest biodiversity summit, known as COP16, concluded in some disarray. There were several landmark decisions, but also lack of agreement on some key issues. It was agreed that: Companies profiting from nature’s genetic data should pay towards its protection through a global fund The fund, to be known as the Cali fund after […]
30 Oct 2024
As the COP16 Convention on Biological Diversity continues in Colombia, there is new data from CDP showing that there has been a 20% increase in the number of companies measuring and reporting how their operations and value chains impact nature over the past year. There has also been a 24% increase in companies evaluating their water […]
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