Winter 2013 Newsletter

ialeUK and IALE-Europe invite all colleagues to Manchester for the IALE 2013 European Congress. This major international event will examine how and why European landscapes are changing and how landscape ecology can help us to plan for the future at local to global scales.

The upcoming workshop will be run on the 13th and 14th May 2013 and will provide an opportunity for those engaged in research at MSc & PhD level to explore the types of data which are available to them, and to be introduced to a range of statistical techniques commonly used when analysing landscape, cultural and ecological data.

The Western Ghats mountain range in SW India is one of the top global biodiversity hotspots. However, increasing population pressure on resources threatens this diversity.

Volunteers are needed to survey the elusive woodcock species to determine the extent of change in breeding population distributions.

Public consultation is currently underway seeking views on the proposed sites for the designation of Marine Conservation Zones.

Two pilot bader culls will go ahead this summer to tackle the spread of bovine TB.