Biodiversity
The latest Biodiversity news, including Farming & Forestry news and issues affecting the environment and your business, from energy & resources policy, carbon footprints and biofuels to grants, technology and regulations.
Shopping bag charge results in 650 million fewer bags in Scotland
The Scottish Government has confirmed that retailers across Scotland have witnessed a massive reduction in the number of single use carrier bags handed out since the five pence charge came into effect a year ago.Sky and WWF raise over £9 million to help protect Amazon rainforest
Sky Rainforest Rescue, the six-year partnership between Sky and WWF, has raised over £9 million to help keep one billion trees standing in the Amazon.Britain’s supermarkets sign up to WWF’s Save Forests campaign
Asda has become the latest grocer to sign up to WWF’s Save Forests campaign, completing the line-up of major supermarkets lending their support, all pledging to ensure their timber and wood based products will be from sustainable sources by 2020.Crown Estate green roof initiative attracts wildlife to London’s West End
London’s West End may not seem the ideal habitat for wildlife, but wrens, thrushes and bats are making it their home.Britain votes: “lively” territorial robin named country’s national bird
It’s territorial, chippy and punches above its weight – and that’s why Britons have voted for the robin to be the country’s national bird, according to the organiser of a nationwide poll.Today’s polling day…for Britain’s national bird
The general election isn’t the only vote of national importance happening on Thursday. A poll to choose Britain’s national bird will close at midnight and 116,000 people have already cast their vote.Wet wipes are major waste hazard on UK beaches
The number of wet wipes washing up on beaches in the UK increased by more than 50 per cent last year, say conservationists, who have urged people to stop flushing them down their toilets.UK and world can avoid dangerous climate change and still live well, new analysis shows
The world can enjoy higher standards of living and more travel, while drastically cutting emissions to avoid dangerous climate change – but only with sweeping changes to our infrastructure, the natural world and agriculture, a new analysis has found.Defra confirms avian flu at Yorkshire duck farm where 6,000 birds face slaughter
Government scientists are investigating whether an outbreak of avian flu on a duck farm in Yorkshire is connected to a highly contagious strain in chickens in the Netherlands, as officials stressed the threat to humans remains extremely low.WWF report issues “wake up call” to businesses over “alarming” biodiversity loss
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has called on businesses, politicians and people to urgently solve humanity’s increasing demand on the planet’s natural resources, as it publishes today new findings obtained by the WWF and the Zoological Society of London that show wildlife populations globally have halved in the last 40 years.Government joins forces with Unilever and small businesses to create sustainable supply chains
The UK Government is joining forces with consumer goods giant Unilever to develop sustainable supply chains in third world countries at the same time as pledging millions of pounds of investment to help smallholders in developing countries tackle deforestation and manage scarce resources.UK’s biggest coastal flood management scheme completed in Somerset
An ambitious and controversial coastal realignment scheme – billed as the largest in the UK in modern times – has been completed, with sea water pouring on to the Steart peninsula in Somerset for the first time in centuries.New green innovation fund targets farmers
A new fund has launched for agricultural innovation that aims to put money in the hands of businesses with green fingers.Liz Truss named new Environment Secretary
Liz Truss is to be the new Environment Secretary, as part of David Cameron’s Cabinet reshuffle.Organic food better for your health than non-organic food, research finds
Organic food has more of the antioxidant compounds linked to better health than regular food, and lower levels of toxic metals and pesticides, according to the most comprehensive scientific analysis to date.
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