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Today's top stories, click on the headline to read more. CJS's pick of the countryside and wildlife news, updated weekdays. The Daily News page is updated everyday including weekends.
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Mapping the Seabed around Wales - CCW
HABMAP - the project that maps natural habitats in the Irish Sea - has reached a major milestone. Now, all Welsh waters have been mapped, including, for the first time, the Bristol Channel, Dee and Severn Estuaries. All maps are now available for you to study on this website. HABMAP, established in 2004, uses a modelling approach to predict the
distribution of habitats in the Irish Sea. By combining biological and physical datasets with new acoustic mapping
and biological survey work across Welsh waters, CCW marine scientists have
determined where each habitat is likely to be found. Such a strong evidence base is vital to ensure that CCW provides sound
advice to Government and others on how best to conserve and manage the
marine environment, and its valuable habitats, into the future.
Landowners on Guard for Wildfire Fight - Scottish Land and Estates Scottish Land & Estates is leading a new defence against wildfires
following massive damage and destruction to so much of Scotland’s
countryside inflicted by fires last spring. The organisation, which represents some 2,500 landowners across the country, has today published a wildfire information guide. The guide has been prepared in response to the results of a survey of deer management groups which showed 96% of respondents were willing to participate in creating a chain of wildfire defence, by working with the Fire and Rescue Services and their rural neighbours. The guide also responds to calls being made for contingency plans to be put in place by rural groups in all high risk areas, in an effort to tackle the threat of wildfires ahead of the dry season.
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for
Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has teamed up with the Environment Agency
Wales, the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) and Flintshire County Council
to protect areas of ancient woodland on land managed for shooting on two
farms in North Wales. The project, run under BASC’s Green Shoots conservation programme, has
seen more than 25 hectares of ancient woodland fenced against uncontrolled
stock grazing. Additional lengths of hedgerow have also been planted.
The long awaited Government response to the Farming Regulation Task Force
chaired by Richard MacDonald was unveiled on Tuesday at the NFU annual
conference. In it the Government has accepted most of the 220
recommendations from the panel aimed at cutting red tape in the agriculture
industry. The RSPB has welcomed farming minister Jim Paice’s commitment to
maintaining protection for the environment in our farmed countryside.
However there are concerns over the suggestion that regulation should only
be used as a last resort. Abi Burns, RSPB senior agriculture policy officer, said: “As land
managers ourselves we know the importance of proportionate, light-touch
regulation. And as conservationists, we know the importance of having an
agreed set of rules to prevent anyone making a profit by damaging our
collective natural assets.
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Regulation
has a vital role in farming - that’s the message from conservationists
responding to Government proposals unveiled today. (Tuesday, February 21)