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A round up of the top countryside, conservation, wildlife and forestry stories as chosen by the CJS Team.
Helping Yorkshire’s natural world - Heritage
Lottery Fund More than a quarter of a million pounds from the Heritage Lottery
Fund (HLF) will allow people across Yorkshire to unearth the fascinating
and surprising range of undiscovered natural heritage in the county. Projects in Sheffield, Leeds, York and Ryedale will create new
habitats, improve facilities for wildlife watchers and explore the
untold stories behind a local park and gardens, reconnecting people of
all ages with natural heritage on their doorstep. Volunteers and local
people will be at the heart of all four projects. Fiona Spiers, Head of Heritage Lottery Fund Yorkshire and the Humber,
said: “These four latest projects vary in size and location but what
they all have in common is a celebration of the region’s wealth of
beautiful parks, gardens and wildlife sites. It’s thanks to National
Lottery players that we can continue to raise awareness of such
biodiversity and help local people protect it for future generations.” Boosting farm yields to restore habitats could create greenhouse gas ‘sink' - Rothamsted Institute Using UK data study shows that raising farm yields and allowing
‘spared’ land to be reclaimed for woodlands and wetlands could offset
greenhouse gas produced by farming industry New research into the potential for sparing land from food production
to balance greenhouse gas emissions has shown that emissions from the UK
farming industry could be largely offset by 2050. This could be achieved
if the UK increased agricultural yields and coupled this with expanding
the areas of natural forests and wetlands to match its European
neighbours. The new study suggests that by upping forest cover from 12% to 30% of
UK land over the next 35 years – close to that of France and Germany,
but still less than the European average – and restoring 700,000
hectares of wet peatland, these habitats would act as a carbon ‘sink’:
sucking in and storing carbon. This could be enough to meet government targets of 80% greenhouse gas
reduction by 2050 for the farming industry. Agriculture currently
produces around 10% of all the UK’s damaging greenhouse gas emissions.
The new woodlands and wetlands would be more than just a carbon sink,
say researchers. They would help support declining UK wildlife –
including many species of conservation concern – provide more areas for
nature recreation, and help to reduce flooding. However, to make
space for habitat restoration, and to meet rising levels of food demand,
land sparing would depend on increases in farm yields, so that food
needs can be met from less farmland. The new study, published today in the journal Nature Climate Change,
is the first to show that land sparing has the technical potential to
significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a national scale. Access the paper here: Anthony Lamb et
al
The potential for land sparing to offset greenhouse gas emissions from
agriculture. Nature Climate Change
‘Ratty’ hangs on as more mink are trapped -
British Association for Shooting and Conservation Endangered water voles are surviving on two Welsh rivers following a
successful BASC-led campaign to control mink.
A survey of the rivers Soch and Geirch, on the Llyn peninsula, has
provided positive evidence for the elusive mammals, whose national
population levels have declined 90 per cent since the 1990s. Water voles
had virtually disappeared on the rivers of North Wales other than on
some key sites. However, volunteers have again found signs of voles at
locations identified in the last survey. Water voles are often mistakenly called water rats and were
immortalised by Ratty in Wind in the Willows. The alien North American
mink has been key to their decline and BASC began a co-ordinated
programme of mink control on the Llyn after a survey in 2011. In the
last four years, more than 50 mink have been culled on the peninsula. To be effective, water vole surveys rely on volunteers painstakingly
searching river edges to hunt for droppings and feeding piles which
betray their presence. Audrey Watson, BASC’s Green Shoots Wales officer, and volunteers from
Gwynedd CC, Natural Resources Wales, local enthusiasts and students
found evidence on both rivers, and one volunteer spotted a water vole
swimming in the river at Llanengan. Audrey said: “We were very excited to find water vole feeding piles
and latrines, as the vegetation was very high and we were finding lots
of field vole signs. We did worry that we were going to come up empty
handed. However, we found signs of the 2011 population in roughly the
same stretch of rivers so were heartened to realise they are still
there. It looks as though our mink control work is having an effect.
We will start surveying again in May when the vegetation is much lower
and the water voles start their breeding season. Hopefully, we will find
even more signs”. BASC vice-chairman Mike Sherman said: “This work is undertaken in
partnership with a range of organisations and with funding from Natural
Resources Wales. It demonstrates the way that people who shoot are
willing to work with others to improve our countryside and to improve
habitat and wildlife management in Wales.”
National Park landowners sign up for fresh peatland restoration projects
- Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Flooding during December in the north of England and Scotland is yet
again pulling climate change into sharp focus, so Loch Lomond & The
Trossachs National Park and four landowners in the Park have welcomed
confirmation of £249,000 funding from Scottish Natural Heritage’s
Peatland ACTION Project for restoration of peat bogs totalling some
35kms. The money will be spent on conservation measures including
landscaping to reduce exposed peat and the installation of peat dams to
restore water levels in blanket bogs, which are vital to carbon capture
and provide habitats for many important Scottish species. Scotland’s
peat bogs store ten times the carbon of all Britain’s forests combined –
the equivalent of 16200 million tonnes. In addition, bogs in good
condition are great regulators of water as they can store and release
water slowly and steadily, lowering flood risk.
The restoration of sites including Beinn Dubh above Glen Luss,
Auchtertyre near Strathfillan and Glen Dochart at Crianlarich will
involve blocking gullies, which prevents peat from drying out and
releasing carbon into the atmosphere. This will also improve mountain
vegetation for local wildlife. In addition, eroded areas of bare peat
will be re-planted to stabilise the surface. Luss Estates and SRUC
have previously received funding from Peatland ACTION with help from the
National Park and work carried out earlier this year. Auchlyne & Suie
are joining them in receiving this fresh funding together with one
other. Simon Jones, Director of Conservation and Visitor Operations at Loch
Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, said: “As part of Scottish
Government’s commitment to restoring peatland, we are delighted that
land in Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park will benefit from
further support for this important work to help tackle climate change
and protect our valuable natural capital. Peatlands
take thousands of years to form, but can become eroded through a
combination of the elements and overgrazing by livestock and wild deer.
These projects require significant manpower and machinery and National
Park staff will now work with the landowners to start the restoration
process as soon as possible.”
Longest stretch of England's coastline to open for public
- Natural England Progress on England's Coast Path with more miles set to open in the
spring.
Work is now underway to open up half of England’s coastline as part
of wider government plans to complete a path around the whole of the
English coast. The announcement by Rural Minister Rory Stewart marks the latest
milestone in the delivery of one of the world’s longest walkways. The
England Coast Path will stretch out across 2700 miles of stunning
walking routes covering 100% of the country. Already families can explore 101 miles of our spectacular coastline
via the England Coast Path in Cumbria, Durham, Dorset and Norfolk, with
a further 95 miles of new routes set to open in Kent and Somerset in the
spring. We are working closely with Natural England to build on the
progress already made, with the aim of completing the coastal path
around England by 2020. Work to open up or improve access along our
coast is also underway around the country with work recently started in
Essex, Devon, Hampshire, Lincolnshire and Lancashire, and Natural
England, which is coordinating the development of these routes, will be
continually opening up new paths over the next five years. The new
routes will also improve public access to our coastline, beaches and
foreshore, with existing coastal footpaths used where possible, or in
some cases moved nearer the sea so walkers have a better opportunity to
properly enjoy our coastal views and beaches. The England Coast Path will be a well way-marked National Trail
around the whole of the English coast, passing through some of our
country’s finest and iconic landscapes such as the White Cliffs of
Dover, St Bees Head, and the sunny beaches of the South West, together
with picture postcard villages and the cities that plot our colourful
maritime history.
Charities back strengthening deer management measures in Land Reform
Bill - Scottish Wildlife Trust A group of environmental charities are supporting the call by an SNP
member of the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee,
Michael Russell MSP, for deer management in Scotland to be tightened up
through the Land Reform Bill. In some areas of Scotland, high deer numbers are causing damage to
internationally important habitats, ancient woodlands and peat bogs.
Under the current system, the management of deer numbers by landowners
is mainly voluntary. The Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment
Committee believe this is not tackling the issue and have urged the
Scottish Government to consider strengthening the approach to deer
management. With the backing of the Scottish Wildlife Trust, RSPB Scotland,
Cairngorms Campaign, Ramblers Scotland, John Muir Trust and Woodland
Trust Scotland, Michael Russell MSP has suggested changes to the Land
Reform Bill. The amendments call for giving SNH more powers to ensure
that deer populations are better controlled by deer management groups to
protect the public interest. Mike Russell MSP said: “Recent information from SNH confirms that the
voluntary system of deer management is not working. It
requires considerable legislative strengthening if it is to be an
effective way of controlling the ever increasing number of deer across
Scotland which in some places is threatening biodiversity and the
existence of commercial forestry. In some cases the decision to allow
that to happen is taken by owners for entirely selfish purposes but in
others it is the result of many years of failed management by competing
interests. The Land Reform Bill contains some provisions on deer
management but they do not, in my view, go far enough and I am therefore
grateful for the help of Scottish Wildlife Trust, RSPB Scotland and
others in formulating some initial amendments to start to find an
effective way to tackle this serious and growing problem.”
New £228K bog restoration project launches at Dove Stone
- RSPB The RSPB has launched a major new blanket bog restoration project at
Dove Stone in the Peak District after securing a grant of more than
£228,000 from landfill tax charity WREN.
Blanket bog is a globally scarce habitat, which plays an important
role in storing carbon, improving water quality and giving wildlife a
home. The upland areas of the Peak District used to boast thriving
blanket bogs but a combination of industrial pollution, wildfires and
heavy grazing, left them seriously damaged with large areas of exposed
bare peat. Restoring blanket bogs involves re-covering bare peat with
vegetation, repairing eroded gullies and planting sphagnum moss, the
essential building block of the bog. Over the past five years, staff and volunteers from the RSPB have
already restored vegetation to large areas of bare peat and repaired
gullies at Dove Stone, which it co-manages with landowner United
Utilities. This work will continue with the Spreading the Mosses
project, which involves planting over 70,000 individual handfuls of
sphagnum moss across a 100 hectares of moorland (around 150 football
pitches) with the help of a team of volunteers. Healthy bogs can provide great benefits both for people and wildlife.
As they gradually recover, they’ll help tackle climate change by locking
up harmful carbon, improve water quality by acting as a natural
filtration system and help threatened moorland birds including curlews,
golden plovers and dunlins.
Dismay at fly-tipping incidents on nature reserves
- Devon Wildlife Trust A wildlife charity has expressed its shock and dismay at incidents of
fly-tipping at two of its most beautiful Devon nature reserves. The two separate incidents both took place at Devon Wildlife Trust
reserves over the New Year holidays. The first was at the charity’s
popular Warleigh Point nature reserve, near Plymouth, while the other
took place at the other end of the county at its Bystock Pools nature
reserve, close to Exmouth. The incidents involved the dumping of
domestic rubbish and building waste. Speaking for the charity Steve Hussey said: “We spend more than half
a million pounds each year keeping our 50 nature reserves as places in
which wildlife can flourish and people can enjoy. So it is sad to see
the scenes at Warleigh Point and Bystock Pools. Dumped material is
off-putting and can even be dangerous for the hundreds of visitors these
sites attract. Taking a walk on one of our nature reserve is one of
life’s great free pleasures, it shouldn’t be spoiled by a few selfish
people.
Thames Water fined £1 million for pollution to Grand Union Canal
- Environment Agency Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Water) has been ordered to pay
record-breaking £1 million after polluting a canal in Hertfordshire.
This is the highest ever fine for a water company in a prosecution
brought by the Environment Agency. The case was brought by the Environment Agency after Thames Water
caused repeated discharges of polluting matter from Tring STW (Sewage
Treatment Works) to enter the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal in
Hertfordshire between July 2012 and April 2013. In May Thames Water pleaded guilty before Watford Magistrates Court
to two charges under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales)
Regulations 2010. On Monday 4 January, at St Albans Crown Court the
company was ordered to pay a fine of £1 million, costs of £18,113.08 and
a victim surcharge of £120. Explaining why the fine was so large, HHJ Bright QC stated that: "
The time has now come for the courts to make clear that very large
organisations such as [Thames Water] really must bring about the reforms
and improvements for which they say they are striving because if they do
not the sentences passed upon them for environmental offences will be
sufficiently severe to have a significant impact on their finances."
Thousands of pink bottles washed up on the Cornish coast
- National Trust On Monday January 4 2016, thousands of bright pink detergent bottles
have been washed up on Poldhu beach on the Lizard Peninsula, part of the
West Cornwall coastline cared for by the National Trust.
Justin Whitehouse, National Trust Lead Ranger on the Lizard Peninsula, said: ‘We were alerted to the bottles on Monday and started collecting them straight away, with the aid of our staff and volunteers including those from the Friends of Poldhu Community Group, to remove them from the coastal environment as quickly as possible. We are urging people to not to pick up any bottles without using protective gloves, to keep animals away, and to avoid swimming or walking in the area until any risk from the detergent to human or animal health has been assessed. More than two tonnes worth of bottles have been collected so far, however there is potential for more of the bottles to spread further up and down the coast. Samples of bottles have been submitted for independent analysis and are waiting for the results, as our immediate concern is any impact on the environment and wildlife. We have been in contact with potential manufacturers of the bottles about the clean-up and will be investigating the source of where the bottles have come from.’
Shooting groups unite to condemn the law breakers
- Moorland Association Leading shooting representatives have urged Defra to introduce new
checks allowing the police to trace inland shoots that are believed to
be breaking lead ammunition laws. Countryside organisations have condemned inland shoots that are
breaking the law by using lead shot for wildfowl, and have appealed to
the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs to help identify
and prosecute those responsible. Representatives from eight groups, including BASC, the Moorland
Association and Countryside Alliance, signed a letter to Secretary of
State Elizabeth Truss. The letter acknowledges that while almost all coastal wildfowlers are
in compliance, there is evidence that some inland shoots are still
ignoring the law concerning lead ammunition, despite the risk of a
£1,000 fine and criminal conviction.
Millions of people across the UK connect with nature and their local
Wildlife Trust - Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife
Trust The Wildlife Trusts’ Annual Review 2014-2015 shows that wherever you
are in the UK there is a Wildlife Trust caring for wildlife and wild
places near you. The 47 Wildlife Trusts give millions of people a chance
to connect with nature, be inspired to value wildlife and to take action
for it. The Wildlife Trusts’ Annual Review 2014-2015 published in December
outlines the impacts of the Wildlife Trusts. These include:
The Wildlife Trusts champion and care for wild places and wildlife on
land and sea. We look after more than 98,000 hectares of woods, meadows,
beaches, rivers, hills, bogs and urban parks. We also campaign for the
protection of our seas and run marine conservation projects around the
coast. We provide expert advice to others - farmers, schools, businesses and
local councils - to help them manage their land for the benefit of
wildlife. We collaborate and work in partnership with a wide range of
different people from local communities to national environmental and
social organisations, to create change for nature. Download The Wildlife Trusts’ Annual Review 2014-2015.
Public asked to help as storms wash up rare turtles
- Dorset Wildlife Trust Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is asking members of the public to report
sightings of any turtles washed up on Dorset beaches as a matter of
urgency following the discovery of four turtles in just nine days,
including the rare Kemp’s Ridley Turtle.
On 23rd December a live Loggerhead Turtle was found near Worth
Matravers in Dorset, which had to be put to sleep due to its injuries.
Since then, 3 critically endangered Kemp’s Ridley Turtles, the rarest of
all Turtles, have been found dead by beach walkers at West Bay, West
Bexington and Kimmeridge. Winter storms have been tough of wildlife living in the sea DWT Marine Awareness Officer, Julie Hatcher said, “The winter storms
have been tough on wildlife living in the sea. Hard-shelled Turtles live
in tropical seas, but if they get picked up in a strong ocean current
such as the gulf stream, and end up in cold northern waters they can’t
survive for long because their metabolism slows down and they stop
feeding. The public can help by reporting any sightings, alive or
dead, so we can arrange a rescue, or recovery and post mortem to help us
learn more about the threats to these animals in our oceans.” Please report any Turtle sightings asap To report sightings of Turtles dead or alive, please phone Rod
Penrose on 01239 683033 (24 hours) as soon as possible. For other
sightings phone 01929 481044 or email
kimmeridge@dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk. You can also share your
photos with DWT on social media via facebook/dorsetwildlife or Twitter,
@DorsetWildlife.
A day for flooding news
Confor and Woodland Trust call for meeting on floods
- Confor CONFOR and The Woodland Trust have written a joint letter to the
Secretary of State for the Environment to highlight the long-term
opportunities for tree-planting to help reduce the threat of floods. The letter to Elizabeth Truss MP - from Confor Chief Executive Stuart
Goodall and The Woodland Trust CEO Beccy Speight - recognises that the
immediate priority is to support people affected by the devastating
floods. The two organisations stress that they want to "help shape the UK's
long-term approach to the problem of flooding". The letter continues:
"Tree planting can contribute to reducing peak flows as part of a
package of measures to reduce the threat of flooding - as well as
improving water quality." Stuart Goodall said: "The terrible floods have demonstrated that
Government has to look at more than just flood defences. We need to hold
rainwater in the hills so that the peak flow of water is reduced,
helping flood defences to do their job. Planting productive forests
manages water flow, while also helping wildlife, providing alternative
income for farmers and locking up carbon." In March 2015, Confor and Forest Research published The
Role of Productive Woodlands in Water Management, a detailed report
which demonstrates how productive woodlands can reduce flood risk and
protect British waterways. Confor and The Woodland Trust joined forces in November to call on the government to commit to planting planting 7000 hectares (ha) of woodland every year until 2020 (around 15 million trees per year) and then to increase that to 10,000 ha per year when the next Government is elected in 2020.
The Inconvenient Truth by Dr Tony Whitbread,
CEO Sussex Wildlife Trust Building houses in floodplains is nonsensical says Dr Tony Whitbread
Chief Executive of the Sussex Wildlife Trust. He is also concerned
that the simplistic messages often promoted on social media that
flooding equals lack of dredging is causing upset and confusion with
bizarre claims that rivers are being left un-dredged to protect
wildlife. In fact, the opposite is the case, as careful management of river
catchments reduces flood risk downstream with the added bonus of
encouraging a rich and varied wildlife. Dr Whitbread said, ‘How we manage river valleys can increase, or
reduce, the flood risk to people living downstream. Building hard
flood defences, concreting land, woodland removal and river dredging
upstream increases flood risk. But, allowing flood plains to
flood, and then slowly releasing water afterwards, reduces the height of
a river in flood when we experience huge amounts or persistent rainfall.
Water has to go somewhere; if we defend or dredge one area then the
water will just go somewhere else. If we prevent flood plains from
flooding (there’s a clue in the name!) then water will move to the next
weak point, often an urban area.’ He continued, ‘In Sussex, there are now many examples of landowners
doing woodland planting, washland creation and river re-naturalisation
to reduce flood risk and benefit wildlife. What is needed is good
government policy and financial packages to enable it to happen on a
large scale. There is a place for dredging and hard defences but
within a far more sophisticated approach to managing the whole
catchment. Read the whole article
The science behind flooding - CEH On Wednesday 7 January four scientists from the Centre for Ecology &
Hydrology (CEH) gave an hour-long background briefing on the science
behind flooding. This wasn’t a news briefing, there was no new data or
report published on the day, it was simply an opportunity for
journalists to question flood science experts. At the start of the
briefing Professor Alan Jenkins who is Director, Water and Pollution
Science and Deputy Director of CEH introduced a number of key
hydrological principles to get the discussion going. This blog post
outlines the key points made at the start of the briefing. A subsequent
post will cover the long discussion during the briefing covering the
effectiveness of Natural Flood Management techniques such as tree
planting, creation of woody debris dams and changes to upland management
practices. Professor Jenkins started by saying, “The introduction won't take
very long, and this is not meant to be controversial, these are a few
statements that we're happy to take questions on, and I'm sure there
will be a lot of questions about them, but they're really here to
stimulate. And they're really to give some perhaps rather bold
statements about where hydrological science is on the current flooding
issues. The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is probably the largest
hydrological research centre in the UK, we have a very long CV in floods
research. So we're here to try to establish some of the hydrological
issues and facts that we see around the flooding problems that we've had
recently, and perhaps going further back.” He went on to outline several key points on flood science.
Beautiful Scotland - Flourishing At 50
- Keep Scotland Beautiful Keep Scotland Beautiful is calling for groups from across the country
to register to take part in either
Beautiful Scotland or
It's Your Neighbourhood - as it celebrates 50 years of community
growing. Local volunteers and entire communities are being urged to come
together to clean up and ‘green up’ the areas in which they live, work
and play - and be recognised for their tireless efforts in improving
their own villages, towns and cities. Beautiful Scotland and It’s Your Neighbourhood are managed by Keep
Scotland Beautiful and linked to the
Royal Horticultural Society Britain in Bloom campaign. The campaigns
have, for many years, supported and celebrated the achievements of
communities throughout Scotland in their continuous work to improve
local environmental quality, and Beautiful Scotland is celebrating 50
years of success in 2016. The campaigns focus on year round horticultural and gardening
achievements, environmental responsibility and community participation,
with recognition being given for exemplar work in areas such as tourism,
biodiversity and sustainability.
Out-of-print forestry publications made available on line
- Forestry Commission Out-of-print Forestry Commission technical publications are being
brought back to life and made available again in an on-line archive. Since its establishment almost 100 years ago, the Forestry Commission
has produced a large number of informative publications on a wide range
of forestry-related subjects, creating a substantial library over the
decades. Although many of the key texts have been revised over the years, with
contemporary editions available in print and/or on line, most of the
older titles are now out of print. However, as Roger Coppock, Head of
Corporate and Forestry Support at the commission, explained: “Much of
this older material is still valuable and in demand by students,
researchers and professionals across the forestry and related sectors at
home and abroad, but apart from a few hard copies in libraries, it is
inaccessible. So to meet this demand for access to our
out-of-print publications in a cost-effective way, we have converted all
our technical publications to digital formats, and filed them in an
on-line archive available to all.” About 400 titles have been digitised, and will be uploaded in batches
over the coming year. The first 11 titles uploaded are Handbooks, and
these will be followed by Technical Papers, Journals of the Forestry
Commission, Bulletins, Booklets, Field Books and Annual Reports. The archived publications can be accessed free of charge at
www.forestry.gov.uk/publications, by selecting ‘Archive’ from the
Category menu.
Scientific Publications Morgane Nouvian, Lucie Hotier, Charles Claudianos, Martin Giurfa &
Judith Reinhard.
Appetitive floral odours prevent aggression in honeybees.
Nature Communications doi:10.1038/ncomms10247
Published 23 December 2015.DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2064
Malcolm Hunter Jr., Martin Westgate, Philip Barton, Aram Calhoun,
Jennifer Pierson, Ayesha Tulloch, Maria Beger, Cristina Branquinho, Tim
Caro, John Gross, Jani Heino, Peter Lane, Catherine Longo, Kathy Martin,
William H. McDowell, Camille Mellin, Hanna Salo, David Lindenmayer,
Two roles for ecological surrogacy: Indicator surrogates and management
surrogates, Ecological Indicators, Volume 63, April 2016, Pages
121-125, ISSN 1470-160X, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.11.049. Soons, M. B., Brochet, A.-L., Kleyheeg, E. and Green, A. J. (2015),
Seed dispersal by dabbling ducks: an overlooked dispersal pathway for a
broad spectrum of plant species. J Ecol. Accepted Author Manuscript.
doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12531 G. Roca, T. Alcoverro, D. Krause-Jensen, T.J.S. Balsby, M.M. van
Katwijk, N. Marbà, R. Santos, R. Arthur, O. Mascaró, Y.
Fernández-Torquemada, M. Pérez, C.M. Duarte, J. Romero,
Response of seagrass indicators to shifts in environmental stressors: A
global review and management synthesis, Ecological Indicators,
Volume 63, April 2016, Pages 310-323, ISSN 1470-160X, DOI:
10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.12.007. Ali Muhammad Ali Rushdi, Ahmad Kamal Hassan,
An exposition of system reliability analysis with an ecological
perspective, Ecological Indicators, Volume 63, April 2016, Pages
282-295, ISSN 1470-160X, DOI: /10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.11.050.
Davis, M. L., Stephens, P. A. and Kjellander, P. (2016),
Beyond climate envelope projections: Roe deer survival and environmental
change. The Journal of Wildlife Management. doi: 10.1002/jwmg.1029 Newton, Adrian Christopher.
Biodiversity risks of adopting resilience as a policy goal.
Conservation Letters DOI: 10.1111/conl.12227
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Water
vole (Picture courtesy of www.northeastwildlife.co.uk)
reprofiling
peatland Beinn Dubh Luss Estates (image: LLTNPA)
Coastal
footpath in Dorset, image: Natural England
Helicopter
at Dove Stone (image: Jon Bird, RSPB)
Pink
bottles on Poldhu beach in Cornwall (image: National Trust)
Washed-up
Kemp’s Ridley Turtle © Julie Hatcher (via Dorset Wildlife Trust)
