29 Jul 2020
World Fish Migration Foundation ‘Populations of migratory river fish around the world have plunged by a “catastrophic” 76% since 1970, an analysis has found. The fall was even greater in Europe at 93%, and for some groups of fish, with sturgeon and eel populations both down by more than 90%. Species such as salmon, trout and giant […]
26 May 2020
The threat to biodiversity is no less than posed by climate change – the cuts to UKs conservation budgets over the last decade have fundamentally weakened our ability to restore biodiversity. The government has allocated £15m in additional funding to Natural England for this financial year after a decade of cuts that have left England’s wildlife agency […]
26 May 2020
EU ‘ BIODIVERSITY – THE NEED FOR URGENT ACTION From the world’s great rainforests to small parks and gardens, from the blue whale to microscopic fungi, biodiversity is the extraordinary variety of life on Earth. We humans are part of, and fully dependent on, this web of life: it gives us the food we eat, […]
24 May 2020
The EU Biodiversity Strategy ’Bringing nature back into our lives’ is part of the European Green Deal, the roadmap for making the EU’s economy more sustainable. The strategy proposes actions and commitments to halt biodiversity loss in Europe and worldwide by 2030. Click here They include: Establishing a larger EU-wide network of protected areas on […]
15 Mar 2020
Seagrass, which is found in shallow waters of coastal regions, has been declining globally at a rate of about 7% a year since 1990. In the UK, upto 92% of the plant may have disappeared from around our coasts in the last century. A seagrass restoration project is underway in south Wales in a bid […]
05 Jan 2020
Posted on 30 December, 2019 by Green Alliance blog This post is by Tony Juniper CBE, chair of Natural England and Emma Howard Boyd, chair of the Environment Agency. As we start the New Year, it’s clear that 2020 is our last chance to bring the world together to take decisive action on climate change, to protect our […]
11 Dec 2019
Defra: ‘ENV09 – England biodiversity indicators A strategy for England’s wildlife and ecosystem services, biodiversity 2020 indicators: 2019 assessment. In December 2019, this dataset was updated in order to correct an error in indicator 13 and to reflect the availability of new data for indicators 2b, 4c and 19. The revised dataset supersedes the earlier […]
07 Dec 2019
A landmark Greenpeace report today highlights our reliance on the ocean as Earth’s largest carbon sink. It warns that our changing climate, biodiversity loss and habitat destruction are endangering the processes which underpin the ocean’s ability to sequester and store carbon. This will have ‘far-reaching implications for biodiversity and humankind’. The report, In Hot Water: The […]
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