CJS News, Headlines from week beginning 26 October 2020

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

War on plastic is distracting from more urgent threats to environment, experts warn - University of Nottingham

Record numbers of stag beetle sightings from Great Stag Hunt 2020 - People's Trust for Endangered Species

Government under increasing pressure to ban burning on England’s peatlands - RSPB

Marine Management Organisation seeks evidence and views on new protections for English marine sites - Marine Management Organisation

Beaches can survive sea-level rises if they have space to move - University of Plymouth

Network Rail sets world-first targets to combat global warming - Network Rail

Britain’s climate zones shifting 5 km a year - nature recovery could avert wildlife catastrophe - Rewilding Britain

New Forest National Park Authority responds to Government’s proposed new planning reforms - New Forest National Park Authority

The Prince’s Countryside Fund receives £25,000 from the National Lottery to continue vital work - The Prince’s Countryside Fund

Specialised omnivores – individual red foxes prefer different foods in the city and the countryside - Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research

Defra concludes its review into releasing gamebirds on and around protected sites - Defra

Review of gamebird releases on and around European protected sites - Defra Decision

Defra propose gamebird releasing licence around protected sites - British Association for Shooting and Conservation

Scottish SPCA rehabilitates and releases youngest red squirrels in area of conservation - Scottish SPCA

Scientific Publications

A new Natural Capital Committee’s report highlights that the majority of England’s natural assets (air quality, marine environment, soils and land) examined by the committee, five out of seven are ‘deteriorating’, while no natural asset group is making progress in meeting existing targets and commitments.

Access the report here

Read the blog here

Defra Research and analysis: Bovine TB: incidence of TB in cattle in licenced badger control areas in 2013 to 2019
Annual TB monitoring data and results for each of the badger control licensed areas and their buffer areas up to the end of 2019.

This monitoring report provides the annual TB monitoring data and results for each of the badger control licensed areas and their buffer areas up to the end of 2019. New badger control areas will be included in subsequent reports once they have at least one year of follow-up data available.

Download the Bovine TB in cattle: badger control areas monitoring report, 2013 to 2019  documents (pdf)

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