South West Water: New Upstream Thinking programme to protect rivers The multi-award-winning Upstream Thinking partnership is expanding work to improve water quality in the region’s rivers with a new five-year programme. A partnership of South West Water, the Devon Wildlife Trust, the Cornwall Wildlife Trust, the Westcountry Rivers Trust and the Exmoor National Park Authority […]
Severn Trent sets out climate change adaptation plans to 2020 Severn Trent Water has published a new report setting out its climate change adaptation plans to 2020 which include doubling the number of sustainable urban drainage projects, reducing leakage by 6% and giving up around 85Ml/d of abstraction licenses. Introducing the Future Proofing report, Severn Trent […]
WWF-UK, the Angling Trust & Fish Legal Judicial Review secured a major step forward for the protection of our most important rivers and wetlands. The Judge recognised the need for urgent action to protect these precious places and the wildlife that lives there. As a result of their legal victory today, the Government must evaluate […]
4.05 pm 24th Nov Update: The Welsh Government has taken down the online response form for its consultation on scallop dredging in Cardigan Bay. Hi there, Please see below an update to the press release sent earlier today: Update: Welsh Government closes scallop dredging consultation – but threat remains The Welsh Government has taken down […]
The Crown Estate ‘The UK generates more energy from offshore wind than any other country in the world, powered by almost 1,500 turbines in 27 wind farms. For the first time, it is possible to these turbines at work all at once via a new interactive map created by The Crown Estate, which manages land […]
HFF publish Social and Economic Benefits of Marine and Maritime Cultural Heritage by Dr Antony Firth 2015 The importance of our heritage and its relevance both to our society and to our economy is becoming increasingly recognised. Whether in our towns and cities or in rural landscapes, the character of places draws upon the past, […]
Fishing nations at the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) have once again failed to adopt scientific advice and best practices to safeguard several species of oceanic sharks. Unprecedented support for stronger ICCAT finning ban was quashed. Mako & blue shark catches remain unlimited. A small step taken […]
Decades’ worth of data revealing the health of our seas and marine wildlife, will be made freely available to the public for the first time, following the launch of a new ‘Data Hub’ today by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas). The Cefas Data Hub, an online portal allowing the public and […]