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Biodiversity and Ecoservices

Farming cows  crops 1Catchment Sensitive Farming advice is now available to farmers, land managers and growers across England following the expansion of the programme.

WWF LIVING PLANET REP0RT 2022Leading conservation organisation WWF is warning that the global biodiversity which sustains all life on earth is in crisis, putting every species at risk.

ESTUARY - THE LOWER OTTERThe Promoting Adaptation to Changing Coasts (PACCo) project is inviting anyone that wishes to find out more about the project to register for two upcoming webinars and join the discussion on climate change resilience, socio-economics and adapting to changing coastlines.

EA CRAYFISH RELOCATION EA 1The Environment Agency and Northumberland Rivers Trust have relocated hundreds of native crayfish from the abundant populations found in the River Wansbeck in Morpeth, one of the last remaining strongholds for the white-clawed crayfish, to six refuge sites in North Northumberland.

Wessex - Limestone grasslands Charmy Down 1Wessex Water is beginning work on a five-year restoration project as part of the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) which will see the water company sensitively improve sites including mixed deciduous woodland, lowland grassland, ponds, lowland meadows and saltmarsh, to the benefit of their associated wildlife.

Dam - leaky  - Sheffield Lakeland LanscapeThe Environment Agency’s programme of improvements across Yorkshire has created or improved more than 82 hectares of habitat in the past year.

BORDERS RESERVOIR - DRAINED 3Scottish Water has shared images and video taken from the bottom of a Borders dam which has been drained for the first time ever in order to help the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) determine the future of the structure.

SALMON STOCKS 1Wild Atlantic salmon stocks in UK rivers are reaching crisis point, according to the latest stock assessment report which estimates they are at their lowest levels on record.

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY WORKING WITH NATURE REPORT JULY 2022Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive at the Environment Agency is warning of a ‘silent spring’ for wildlife if warnings are ignored and urging action ahead of the UN Convention of Biological Diversity in Canada in December 2022. A third of British pollinator species have declined with a fifth of UK plants threatened with extinction.

Wildlife Trusts Changing Nature report June 2022The Wildlife Trusts are warning that radical action is needed to tackle a dramatic decline in nature in the face of climate change - an assessment of the projected impacts on the Wildlife Trusts’ huge estate across 400 square miles shows the scale of the climate crisis. 

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