At Jonathan Porter’s initiative, ialeUK was awarded the great honour of hosting the IALE 2013 European Congress. Held in the city of Manchester, it successfully brought together almost 400 delegates.
Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs), which seek to enhance the environment on a landscape scale, are making ‘real progress’ in delivering their objectives according to Professor Sir John Lawton, as the first NIA evaluation report is published today.
Natural England have recently earmarked over £995,000 for the Species Recovery Programme, which has been improving the conservation status of a range of rare plants and animals for over a decade.
This report draws together a number of tools that aim to value green infrastructure, and assesses them against research standards in order to help people choose the best tool for them.
Farmland birds are continuing to decline. The annual Wild Bird Indicator statistics have been released and looking back over 40 years the long term decline in farmland birds is 50%, however the decline has slowed in recent years.
