15 Apr 2025
Image description: Maori rock carving at Mine Bay on Lake Taupo. Image by holgerheinze0 / Pixabay Oceanographic reports three of New Zealand’s most ecologically-rich islands have joined an ambitious, globe-spanning project to restore and rewild 40 globally significant island-ocean ecosystems by 2030 through a series of initiatives to remove invasive species and safeguard their […]
15 Apr 2025
Image description: A fin whale and its calf swimming in the open ocean. Iceland’s only active whaling company, Hvalur hf., announced it will not be operating this summer, marking the second consecutive year without a hunting season. According to reports, the company cited ongoing global economic pressures and declining demand for whale meat as […]
10 Apr 2025
Image description: A wading curlew foraging in water. Image by Rober So / Pexels. New planning reforms could push species towards extinction and destroy precious habitats, the UK’s leading nature organisations have warned the government. The heads of over 30 UK conservation groups have written to Defra Secretary of State Steve Reed and Housing […]
06 Mar 2025
An image of the team restocking fish into the River Weaver A total of 4,000 fish, including chub dace and roach, have been released into the River Weaver at two key locations in Cheshire, including Mill Island Weir and downstream in “The Willows” area. The restocking aims to help replenish populations after two pollution […]
06 Mar 2025
A new collaborative study, carried out between River Carron Conservation Association (RCCA) and the Institute for Biodiversity and Freshwater Conservation at UHI Inverness, offers one of the most comprehensive investigations of conservation stocking of salmon in the United Kingdom. Photo by Gingerbreadmedia / Pixabay Wild salmon populations have suffered extreme declines in Scotland, […]
27 Jan 2025
The Worshipful Company of Water Conservators (WCWC) has set out its concerns that there is no overarching strategy pulling all the elements of water conservation together in the United Kingdom and that current developments in policy and regulation are evolving as a patchwork of silos, often inconsistent, not linking together, or to what is in […]
25 Jan 2025
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament has launched the next of its thematic inquiries, on fisheries and the marine environment. MPs will delve into the challenges facing the fishing sector, including access to labour and competing spatial pressures on the marine environment. The inquiry will see the Committee scrutinise the […]
25 Jan 2025
Dr Emma Sheehan, from the University of Plymouth, has been researching the ecological impacts of the Lyme Bay Marine Protected Area since 2008, in what is considered to be the best example of a continuous long-term MPA monitoring study in the UK. Now, Dr Sheehan, together with ‘Ropes to Reefs’ Project Manager Amy Cartwright, gives […]
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