Protecting water and promoting farmland biodiversity high on the agenda on MP visit to Research Farm
Angela Smith, Member of Parliament for Penistone and Stocksbridge, visited Bayer CropScience’s research farm near Cambridge this week to discuss the key topics of protecting water courses and promoting farmland biodiversity. Ms Smith MP, who is the Shadow Water, Fisheries and Animal Welfare Minister met with Alice Johnston and Dr Julian Little from Bayer CropScience, […]
The CRT re-discovers the Mighty Midget
Dr Vince Lea, head of the CRT’s wildlife monitoring says: “The harvest mouse is a wonderful little animal weighing in at between 4-6 grams (below a quarter of an ounce) – less than the weight of a pound coin. The body is between 50-70mm (about two inches) and the incredible prehensile tail is about the […]
Plant breeders highlight key role of biodiversity
The UK is host to a number of internationally significant seed bank collections, whose combined resources include many thousands of wild species, landraces and obsolete cultivars dating back many decades, as well as more recent ‘conservation’ types and modern elite varieties. Britain’s leading seed bank collections include the Commonwealth Potato Collection at the James Hutton […]
Economy should serve ecology
In its latest report on ecosystem services, CIWEM champions the fundamental role of biodiversity and ecosystems to human survival and well-being. Water and biodiversity, the theme of the 2013 United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, celebrated 22 May each year, speaks to the important role of biodiversity and ecosystems in providing for water security […]
Time to change the strategy in the battle for biodiversity
Speaking at the Planet Under Pressure conference, a major international gathering in London focusing on solutions to global sustainability, he said the world was facing unprecedented change in structure and function of natural ecosystems. Speaking in a session with other senior scientists from around the world, he said humans had increased the species extinction rate […]
