Two very different takes on the debate as to whether National Park’s should pursued a limited course of rewilding. I’ll leave you to draw your
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/28/two-worlds-top-three-leading-insecticides-harm-bees-study-shows?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Green+Light+2016&utm_term=169734&subid=13038048&CMP=EMCENVEML1631 Two of the world’s top three insecticides harm bumblebees – study Damian Carrington, The Guardian, Thursday 28 April 2016. Two of the world’s most
Good to see air pollution moving up both the media and political ladders (see link below). Facts such as possibly 50,000 premature deaths per year
Catching-up on my reading and came across these stories (which I’ve abridged), reported by Sue Everett in the February edition of ‘British Wildlife.’ From Environment
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/17/farmers-chase-boom-in-biofuels Biofuels, plastics and drugs: is this the future of our farms? John Vidal, The Observer, Sunday 17 April 2016. Farmer Rob Pickering last week
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/arable-land-soil-food-security-shortage Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say Oliver Milman, The Guardian, Wednesday 2 December 2015. The world
The Government has just published its new strategy for England’s National Parks (with mentions for their poor relations, the important AONB’s (Areas of Outstanding Natural
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/21/eat-less-meat-vegetarianism-dangerous-global-warming Eat less meat to avoid dangerous global warming, scientists say. Fiona Harvey, Monday 21 March 2016. Growing food for the world’s burgeoning population is
Part of an article concerning the continuing adverse hold of power of the National Farmers Union over UK governments and the environment. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2016/mar/23/has-the-nfu-presidents-farm-led-by-example-when-it-comes-to-bad-practice-in-the-countryside?CMP=share_btn_tw George Monbiot,
This study largely reiterates and reminds the farming industry of the huge advantages of not managing hedges to resemble the jumps on a racecourse! It
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