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Biodiversity and Ecoservices

river trees 1The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has finally published the delayed legally binding environment targets – originally due for publication at the end of October.

The Environment Agency has just finished removing more than 200 tonnes of floating pennywort from the River Wey, near Byfleet Mill weir. Upstream of the weir, the entire water surface had become hidden beneath a six-foot deep, 70-metre-long carpet of the invasive weed.

RIVERS RESTORATION - Cumbrian River Restoration partnerships programme 1The Cumbrian River Restoration partnerships programme to restore and improve rivers in the Lake District has beaten competition from across Europe to win the prestigious European Riverprize.

Floating pennywort Aire  Calder navigation channel 1Floating pennywort weevils have been introduced as a biocontrol to two sites in West Yorkshire to control the growth of floating pennywort – an invasive non-native species (INNS) which can choke the life out of watercourses.

ENV AGENCY ORMESBY BECK TIDAL BARRAGEWork on a £750,000 Environment Agency project designed to restore parts of the natural Tees Estuary and make way for new wildlife habitats is now underway.

BEAVERAnglian Water is partnering in a £350,000 project to build two new dam enclosures for Eurasian beavers to help protect an additional stretch of Finchingfield Brook.

The Environment Agency has confirmed that it has no plans to undertake a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the Thames Estuary 2100 Plan at this time.ea logo

SEVERN TRENT RIVER VISION 1Severn Trent has been crowned as Biodiversity Champion at the 2022 Responsible Business Awards for its £1.2 billion Great Big Nature Boost (GBNB) project, one of the biggest nature projects across the UK.

THAMES WATER CRANE VALLEY PARTNERSHIP REPORTThames Water and The Crane Valley Partnership have published a landmark report providing an overview of the current situation in the Crane Catchment.

WILDLIFE  COUNTRYSIDE LINK REPORT 2022The Wildlife and Countryside Link is warning that the Government has made no appreciable progress on its policy to protect 30% of the land and sea for nature by 2030.

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