Proposals to build an energy centre to extract and distribute heat from the River Tyne required a range of ecological assessments and a Biodiversity Net Gain design.
Tag Archives: biodiversity improvement
Urban Bees Doing Better?
Recent investigations are suggesting important changes to the way we manage our agricultural land will hugely benefit our bees and the production of food at the same time.
Harvest Mouse Successes
Comparisons with historical records suggest that harvest-mouse habitat might have shrunk by about 20%. Harvest mice are “vulnerable” in Wales, but the situation is even bleaker in Scotland.
Wales Declares Nature Emergency
Wales’ Strategy for Nature sets out an ambition ‘to reverse the decline in biodiversity, for its intrinsic value, and to ensure lasting benefits to society’,
Can You Help to Revive Our World?
A Red Kite sculpture outside Cardiff Castle reminds us all that we can take positive action can make a huge difference to the natural world around us.
Help for Butterflies
Ecological support throughout development projects can help reverse the contribution made by loss of habitat to the catastrophic reductions in butterfly populations over the past 40 years.
1000th Dormouse Released
Extinct in 17 of its historical counties and rare in many others, Hazel dormouse populations are being boosted by a significant reintroduction programme.
World Environment Day
We can grow trees, green our cities, re-wild our gardens, change our diets and clean up rivers and coasts. We are the generation that can make peace with nature.
Be Kind to Nettles Week
Caterpillar of Peacock butterfly – one of more than 40 insect types supported by the Common Nettle plant At this time of year, it seems that barely a day goes by without another opportunity being presented for us to celebrate nature, and whilst “Be Kind to Nettles week” might sound like a joke, it isContinueContinue reading “Be Kind to Nettles Week”
Will new Greener Bus Stops help support Bees?
Bee bus stops – an initiative to help our declining pollinator populations – are appearing in a number of cities. Let’s hope the idea is adopted by many more councils and authorities.
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