09 Jun 2020
Chris Rose ‘You may have noticed that despite various ‘bans’ on plastic bags there are quite a lot of media and social media stories in which plastic is compared with alternative materials and plastic is found to be ‘greener’, for example plastic bags compared to cotton bags, or plastic compared to glass or steel bottles. […]
26 Jul 2018
River Severn – Multi-million pound project to reopen UK’s longest River to protected fish species Work begins this week on a major UK wildlife project on the River Severn thanks largely to £10.8 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) – using National Lottery players’ money – and £6 million from the European Union LIFE […]
18 Jul 2018
NRW’s lowland wetland restoration work in North Wales wins Best Nature project in the EU-wide LIFE Nature programme awards. The wetland restoration project spans 750ha of fenland habitat, which has been restored over a five-year period. Natural Resources Wales has restored a range of wetlands including Cors Erddreiniog, Cors Bodeilio, Cors Goch on Anglesey, Cors […]
01 Nov 2017
Natural Course – our progress so far… Over two years ago the Natural Course project began its 10-year journey on the EU LIFE funded project. Since starting the project in October 2015, a few highlights include hosting a Water Platform event and supporting the GM Natural Capital Group Annual Conference, planting 12,000 trees, surveying 40km […]
02 Nov 2016
Funding announced for major new wildlife project to reopen the River Severn for fish and wildlife. A major new wildlife project to reopen the mighty River Severn has secured almost £20 million of funding – £10.8 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund and £6 million from the European Union LIFE programme. The scheme will re-open […]
25 May 2016
OK it’s a Ministerial photo opportunity to highlight a major European contribution …. Would the Brexiters fund this type of work? Defra: The MoorLIFE 2020 project – which received €12 million funding from the European Union – will restore and preserve areas of blanket bog developed over thousands of years which are internationally rare due […]
03 Feb 2016
LIFE-IP RBMP-NWRBD UK (Environment Agency): The project’s objective is to integrate water management approaches to deliver the North West England River Basin Management Plan. In particular, the project will address barriers holding back the achievement of “good” ecological status for the region’s water bodies, as required by the Water Framework Directive. The project aims to […]
11 Aug 2015
The conservation of Europe’s freshwater fish and their habitats is an important EU policy goal, supported not only through the Habitats Directive and EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy, but also because of the clear and close links between water quality and fish conservation status, through the implementation of the Water framework Directive and River Basin Management […]