The
Golden Eagle Trust has appealed to farming organisations to tackle the issue of
illegal toxin use, following confirmation that a ten-month-old Irish-born golden
eagle chick was poisoned in the northwest.
Campaigners calling
for tougher penalties against people who kill birds of prey descended on the Scottish
Parliament yesterday to hand over a petition signed by more than 21,500 people.
A rare bittern injured
when it hit an overhead cable has been released back into the wild after being
nursed back to health at an animal rescue centre.
Oyster-catchers are beginning to pipe along the seashore. They
are large black-and-white waders with a long red bill and pink legs, and are very
easy to identify.
We
help save and restore threatened sites and raise awareness of the importance of
grasslands: not only for their wildlife, but also their cultural, historic and
landscape value.
Committee
calls for clarity over agri-environment scheme
The
Welsh Assembly Government is being taken to task by members of a key all-party
Assembly sub committee and asked to clarify several outstanding issues before
introducing its groundbreaking Glastir agri-environment scheme.
A team has been set up by
the States to protect Jersey's four Ramsar Convention wetland sites after criticism
about the site of a new waste incinerator.
A renewable energy company
is preparing a planning application for a seawater pumped hydroelectric energy
scheme at Glinsk on the north Mayo coastline.
Wildlife in Billericay is going
to get a helping hand thanks to a new scheme to join up nature areas. Living Landscapes
is a national project to help link places where native species can thrive.
Vireol to build third major
UK bioethanol refinery
Biofuels company
Vireol is set to break ground in July on Britain's third major refinery making
bioethanol from feed wheat and further expansion could be on the cards, the company's
chief executive Dave Knibbs said.
Buglife is delighted that finally the Government and manufacturers
of Cypermethrin sheep dip have today announced the withdrawal of all relevant
product permissions.
Indonesia's
protected forests now open to development
President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed a decree to allow mining, power plants and
other projects deemed strategically important to take place in protected forests.
Farmers will be able to grow fields of genetically modified (GM)
potatoes in Europe for the first time after a controversial ruling by the European
Commission.
Herbicide-tolerant crops step closer after EU patent
Herbicide-tolerant crops produced via what its developers claim
are conventional breeding techniques have moved a step closer with the approval
of a new patent.
A team of scientists in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands
are reporting disturbing evidence that soil microbes have become progressively
more resistant to antibiotics over the last 60 years.
A bug-sized version of biological warfare that can protect crops
such as coffee or mangoes may be aided by new rules meant to be agreed in 2010
under a U.N. treaty for safeguarding nature, experts say.
It's war in them thar nests, and the cuckoo's winning eggs down
An intense arms race is under way
in communities around Australia. Both sides have developed sophisticated fire
power and are adding to their defences. But this war is not between people - it
is between two species of native bird.
WWF welcomes US backing for Atlantic bluefin
tuna international trade ban
WWF
welcomes today’s announcement that the United States government will vote for
a ban on international commercial trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna during a meeting
of the largest wildlife trade convention later this month.
Houses with
low energy efficiency will lose value in government plans
Houses with low energy efficiency will lose value under government
plans to intervene in the property market to help cut greenhouse gas emissions
from homes by a third by 2020.
Investors are becoming less convinced that a global carbon market,
estimated to be worth about $2 trillion by the end of the decade, can be established
as uncertainty over global climate policy persists.
For months, climate scientists have taken a vicious beating in
the media and on the Internet, accused of hiding data, covering up errors and
suppressing alternate views.
Chemicals that eased one environmental
problem may worsen another
Chemicals
that helped solve a global environmental crisis in the 1990s — the hole in Earth's
protective ozone layer — may be making another problem — acid rain — worse, scientists
are reporting.
The debate on using public and private financing to fight climate
change must be resolved for the Cancun climate summit to succeed where Copenhagen
failed, U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer warned on Wednesday.
Institute of Physics forced to clarify submission to climate
emails inquiry
The Institute of Physics
has been forced to clarify its strongly worded submission to a parliamentary inquiry
into climate change emails released onto the internet.
'Climategate' professor
admits to withholding information
The
professor at the centre of the 'climategate' row, has admitted sending 'some pretty
awful' emails refusing to send information on to other scientists.
British Antarctic Survey census of biodiversity sheds light on
changing climate
The British Antarctic
Survey (BAS) presents the results of its ongoing census of marine life in the
Antarctic at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Indonesia mulls invite to join
Basic negotiating group
In what could
prove a significant development for faltering international climate change negotiations,
Indonesian officials have revealed the country has been invited to join Brazil,
South Africa, India and China in the so-called Basic Group ...
Senator Lindsey Graham said on Tuesday a proposed economy-wide
cap-and-trade system for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse
gases was dead and would be replaced in a new bill.
