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This week is insect week and on the back of the recent publication of a GWCT scientific paper on invertebrate abundance changes over a 50-year period at the Sussex study site1, it led me to explore the fascinating world of insects – all over again!
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Members and regular readers of our messages about the success of bottom-up approaches to nature conservation will be aware that we call those private land managers, working conservationists. But in truth we probably should also be emphasising the value of farming conservationists.
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On 30th May GWCT Newsround reported on a think piece by Hong Jiang a PhD student at York University which asked how we achieve the expansion of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECM) in line with the ambitions of COP15 and the new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The GBF commits to 23 action-orientated targets by 2030.
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Is the focus on carbon distracting from the benefits of considering soil health in the round?
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There were two Westminster Hall debates recently that considered our nature crisis – one on species recovery led by Sarah Champion MP (Lab) and one on biodiversity loss led by Dr Caroline Lucas MP (Green Party). Both covered many of the usual concerns about the causes of the declines in our species and rightly expressed concern that the government is not addressing some of the ‘low regret’ options that would support recovery.
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I suspect you wonder what I am talking about! These are common, colloquial names for the bittern and woodcock and in some respects are very evocative. Apparently a bluiter is a person or thing that makes a dull, heavy sound – a descriptive of the bittern’s boom I deduce – and bogsucker probably reflects that the woodcock feeds in soft ground using its long bill.
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Bracken has become a contentious subject for land managers as, whilst it has some benefits, where it is invasive and becomes dominant it can have a range of negative impacts which have required its perpetual control through both chemical and mechanical means.
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