10 Jan 2023
Entanglement is the biggest identified cause of death due to human activity for minke and humpback whales, and the extent of the issue has not been well understood. Whales and other marine animals can become entangled in fishing equipment, including the ropes linking creels (also known as pots), which are set around Scotland’s coasts to […]
09 Jan 2023
GRANTS OF UP TO £2500 AVAILABLE FOR COASTAL WATER FOUNTAINS Sea-Changers’ Coastal Fountain Fund 2023 is now open for applications. The fund, which began in 2020, is for organisations who want to install a water bottle refill fountain in a busy or environmentally important coastal location. Since the fund began, we have enabled […]
05 Jan 2023
Natural Resources Wales and Environment Agency plan to eradicate the invasive non-native Topmouth gudgeon from a popular lake in Llanelli. In early January 2023, the two agencies will start work to remove the fish from Sandy Water Park to protect the future of the lake, as well as waterways throughout Wales and England. The work […]
05 Jan 2023
According to the environmental charity Earthwatch, people are increasingly taking pollution monitoring into their own hands. During the year, thousands of people have taken part in protests over sewage spills in rivers and on beaches from Essex to Edinburgh. And at the same time, there’s been a boom in citizen scientists turning their attention to […]
05 Jan 2023
The American space agency Nasa has launched a satellite that’s expected to transform our view of water on Earth. The Swot mission will map the precise height of rivers, reservoirs and lakes, and track ocean surface features at unprecedented scales. It should improve flood and drought forecasts, and help researchers better understand how the climate […]
05 Jan 2023
At nearly four miles long, Loch Leven is the largest natural body of water in the UK, and has long attracted wild swimmers, with everyone from triathletes-in-training to the more casual paddlers heading to Kinross for a dip. Now the Scottish Greens are calling for the loch to become Scotland’s first protected wild swimming hotspot. They […]
05 Jan 2023
The Environment Agency published plans to improve the state of waterways in England over the next five years, backed by £5.3bn of funding. The documents were published on 22nd December and there has been extensive coverage and reaction. The EA’s River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) are a legally-binding environmental planning framework setting environmental objectives to tackle the […]
05 Jan 2023
Below is an extract from a blog by Sheila Gundry, Operations Manager at Froglife, which is part of the ‘LINK Thinks COP15’ series by Scottish Environment LINK. ‘The new Scottish Biodiversity Strategy offers a significant opportunity to restore Scotland’s ecosystems and reverse species declines. Our natural environment is in crisis, and we urgently need an […]
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