Biodiversité

When an expert volunteer is walking through a sunny meadow recording butterflies or searching by torchlight for newts, it can seem a long way from the negotiating halls of Convention on Biological Diversity meetings or from civil servants drafting new legislation.

But trends in species’ abundance, distribution or extinction risk, derived from monitoring and recording schemes, have wide influence in developing and monitoring environmental strategies, agreements and legislation.

Individual species status assessments underpin the lists of priority species within each of the four UK countries. For example, the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 gives Welsh ministers the responsibility ‘maintain and enhance’ species on the Section 7 list. However, many uses of species’ status information come from creating composite measures giving an overview of the status of a taxonomic group, habitat type or of species in general.

Subsidies to restore woodlands and meadows would also boost wildlife, says Rewilding Britain

Richard Primack elaborates on this selection with: “In the United Kingdom, strategies to protect endangered species of plants and animals are more effective when climate change is included as a factor in habitat management.”

Le passage de chalutiers à perche électriques bouleverse la biodiversité sous-marine, révèle une étude réalisée par le Cefas, l’équivalent britannique de l’Ifremer, que le JDLE s’est procurée.

Les lobbies des industries sont en train de construire une campagne contre la réglementation sur l’eau, alors même plus de la moitié des rivières, lacs et marais de l’Union sont dans un bon état.

Massive fine reflects change in sentencing as previously low penalties failed to deter water firms from polluting England’s rivers and beaches