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For anyone with any interest in conservation in the UK, the publication of the Lawton Review is a must-read. It covers the current state of England's protected areas and investigates to what extent they provide a coherent ecological network... 

Cheshire's first breeding record of Marsh Harrier was announced recently, at a secret location in the Gowy & Mersey Washlands, south of the Mersey estuary. The news of the successful breeding was kept under wraps to ensure they were not disturbed during the nesting season.

The Welsh Assembly are developing a Natural Environment Framework (NEF). The framework will have a stronger focus on sustainable land and marine management in Wales based on the ecosystem approach...

November 2010 – March 2011: University of Gloucestershire. The Sustainable Landscape Seminar Series, sponsored by Arup Landscape and Landscape Institute South West, is a free public lecture series exploring issues of sustainability, sustainable development and sustainable living.

Abstracts are invited for the 26th US-IALE Annual Symposium, due to take place from 3rd to 7th April 2011, in Portland, Oregon. Landscape ecology investigates the causes and consequences of environmental heterogeneity across numerous scales.

The 10th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference will take place from 14th to 16th June 2011 at Aula Magna, Stockholm University.

The first messages from the UK National Ecosystem Assessment have been published, highlighting the value of nature both to our society and the economy. Three documents have been published...

Around 374,000ha of land overseen by the Forestry Commission is set to be sold off, environment secretary Caroline Spelman is expected to announce shortly. The move comes as DEFRA endures one of the severest cuts endured in Whitehall, with its total budget cut by 30 per cent in the comprehensive spending review.

A new woodland creation scheme has been launched to help fulfil the commitment to create more native and mixed woodland as set out in Woodlands for Wales, the Welsh Assembly Government's woodland strategy. The bespoke element of Glastir, Wales’s new sustainable land management scheme, offers grants to landowners to create new woodlands on their land.