Biodiversité

UK will spend at least £3bn of international climate finance on nature and biodiversity over five years.

Marine protected areas, or MPAs as they’re more commonly called, are very simple. Areas of the sea are set aside where certain activities – usually fishing – are banned or restricted. Ideally, these MPAs might be placed around particularly vibrant habitats that support lots of different species, like seagrass beds or coral reefs. By preventing fishing gear such as towed seabed trawls from sweeping through these environments, the hope is that marine life will be allowed to recover.

When used well, they can be very effective.

The naturalist uses a UN event to call on world leaders to do more to protect nature.

Craig Bennett, chief executive of The Wildlife Trusts, said "a much greater level of urgent action" was needed to put nature into recovery, including rescuing wildlife sites currently in decline.

The government figure of 26% includes national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONBs), which are more about how our landscape looks as opposed to the state of nature within them, he said.

He told BBC News: "The reality is, at best what's being managed for nature at the moment is only 10%. Even according to the government's own advisers on nature, they say half of that is in a poor condition, so it's nearer 5%. We've got a mountain to climb if we're really going to put nature into recovery in this country and reach the Prime Minister's target by 2030."

Le Royaume scandinave veut anticiper la pénurie, alors qu’il est dépendant des importations pour le traitement de l’eau du robinet et que les livraisons prennent du retard en raison de la pandémie de coronavirus.

Une nouvelle étude pourrait inciter le gouvernement britannique à accepter la réintroduction des castors sauvages dans le pays.

Since 1994, more than £550million of National Lottery funding has been invested in over 9,220 nature projects, making sure the UK's special wild places are safeguarded, full of life and open to people across the countr

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.

Des chercheurs de l’IRD, du CNRS et de l’UGA ont participé à une étude européenne sur les sources de particules fines nocives pour la santé, coordonnée par l'Institut Paul Scherrer (PSI, Suisse). Leurs résultats, publiés dans la revue Nature le 18 novembre 2020, révèlent le caractère nocif des particules fines dans l’atmosphère à travers leur potentiel oxydant. Ils suggèrent que cet indicateur devrait être pris en compte à l’avenir dans les mesures de régulation de la qualité de l’air, pour la santé des populations dans le monde.  

Webinar – Using acoustic indices in environmental and biodiversity research, Dr. Tom Bradfer-Lawrence (RSPB, UK) Acoustic monitoring has an enormous potential for ecosystem research; improving our understanding of the environment and the impacts of anthropogenic pressures on natural systems.

Encore au début de l'année 2020, des chercheurs soulignaient dans une étude que les personnes qui se promènent dans la nature chaque semaine se sentent, physiquement et mentalement, mieux que les autres. Des scientifiques de l'Université d'Exeter (Angleterre) prouvent maintenant que se plonger virtuellement dans un environnement naturel est aussi bénéfique pour le bien-être. Télévision, vidéo à 360° et vidéo immersive.

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.

Si les images de mammifères marins et terrestres ayant péri après avoir confondu nourriture et plastique ont permis de mettre en perspective la gravité de la crise des déchets plastiques, cette nouvelle étude révèle que les oiseaux continentaux sont également concernés.

In 2019, there were 44 million fewer breeding birds in the UK than there were in the 1970s. There are thought to be fewer than one million hedgehogs, compared to 35 million in the 1950s. Two-thirds of British butterflies have also been on a downward trend since the 1970s, adding to a grim picture for biodiversity in the UK.

Researchers from the University of Plymouth have contributed to a new book addressing some of the most pressing challenges in marine conservation.

Many insects moving north in response to climate change find they have nowhere to go in Britain's intensively managed landscapes, according to new research.

Gland, Switzerland, 27 September 2019 (IUCN) – Over half (58%) of Europe’s endemic trees are threatened with extinction, according to assessment

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