CJS News, Headlines from week beginning 24 August 2020

A round up of the top countryside, conservation, wildlife and forestry stories as chosen by the CJS Team.

Solent coastal habitats provide crucial environmental benefits - University of Portsmouth

Volunteers strive to save rare butterfly in the Scottish Borders - Butterfly Conservation

New research highlights what farmers want from new peatland strategy - Newcastle University

Third Woodland Carbon Guarantee auction now open for applications - Defra

National land management charity, the Land Trust, leads call on Government for exemption under VAT Act 1994, to enable charities to deliver significant benefit to communities - The Land Trust

Vote to crown England’s Tree of the Year 2020 - Woodland Trust

Wildlife charity PTES launches Living with Mammals survey this autumn for the first time - People's Trust for Endangered Species

World-leading new law to protect rainforests and clean up supply chains - Defra

Success as UK Government is compelled to act on overseas deforestation - RSPB

Defra’s proposed new law to curb deforestation is seriously flawed - Greenpeace UK

Put Working Conservationists at the heart of conservation policy, says the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust - Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT)

Individual dolphin calls used to estimate population size and movement - University of Plymouth

Pond project pays off for great crested newts in Essex - Natural England

Fresh insight into secret lives of basking sharks - Nature Scot

Scientific Publications

Bijnens, E. M., Derom, C., Thiery, E., Weyers, S. & Nawrotx, T. S. (2020) Residential green space and child intelligence and behavior across urban, suburban, and rural areas in Belgium: A longitudinal birth cohort study of twins. (open access) Plos Medicine. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003213

Jochum, M., Fischer, M., Isbell, F. et al. The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic. Nat Ecol Evol (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1280-9

Ruedenauer Fabian A., Sydow David, Spaethe Johannes and Leonhardt Sara D. 2020 Young bumblebees may rely on both direct pollen cues and early experience when foraging Proc. R. Soc. B.28720201615  doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1615 (Open access)

 

Ellen Iona Fletcher, C. Matilda Collins, Urban Agriculture: Declining opportunity and increasing demand. How observations from London, U.K., can inform effective response, strategy and policy on a wide scale, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2020, 126823, ISSN 1618-8667, doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126823.

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