CJS News, Headlines from week beginning 1 March 2021

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

50+ nature charities and celebs tell PM: deliver on promises to protect nature, in law! - Wildlife & Countryside Link

A pest prophecy: The Brown marmorated stink bug spotted in the UK - Natural History Museum

Rewilding College Green - Avon Wildlife Trust

Interim Office for Environmental Protection to be launched - Defra

First-ever global catalogue of ecosystems will enable coordinated conservation efforts - IUCN

Stay of execution for bees in 2021 - The Wildlife Trusts

Keeping ATVs on the right track - Cairngorms National Park Authority

‘Canary in the mine’ Warning following new discovery of the effects of pollutants on fertility - University of Portsmouth

New partnership formed to save England’s threatened curlews - Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust

State of Moths: New Report shows Britains moths decline by one third - Butterfly Conservation

Our manifesto for change 2021-2030 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Green nuggets in the Budget but not the Green Recovery hoped for - Wildlife and Countryside Link

We comment on the 2021 spring budget: ‘It doesn’t add up’ - CPRE

Research shows nature's recovery can create 7,000 new jobs in Scotland - RSPB

Race to restore seagrass around the UK - University College London

Survey of UK's coast highlights change in wintering waterbird populations - British Trust for Ornithology

World Book Day interview with children's author John Miles - Campaign for National Parks

Joint fisheries conservation NGO position statement on Eurasian beaver re-introduction into England and Wales - Joint press release issued by Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

UK Extinct Species rediscovered in the Outer Hebrides - Buglife

Scientific Publications

The 2020 BirdTrends report from BTO gives the first glimpse of proposed conservation listing, with amongst others, the upgrading of birds such as House Martin and Willow Warbler from amber to red listing and the downgrading of birds such as Song Thrush and Grey Wagtail from red to amber.

It also for the first time carries information for all species on conservation actions needed, if any, and conservation actions that have been used or are currently being taken.

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