Ben Eagle

Rising Sea Levels and Changing Coastlines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH8Q8Ki9fCA Moving on (at least for the moment) from thinking about river and freshwater flooding I want to reflect on where we are heading in terms of coastal change, rise in sea levels and the impacts this will have on all of us, wherever we are geographically. Sea level rise is not and should notContinueContinue reading “Rising Sea Levels and Changing Coastlines”

Reducing flooding impacts through increasing tree cover in river catchments

Flooding is in the news again. However, this time it is flood prevention in the spotlight: advocation of tree planting to mitigate risk. The national conversation has come about as a result of the release of a study, commissioned by the Environment Agency and led by researchers from the Universities of Southampton and Birmingham. PutContinueContinue reading “Reducing flooding impacts through increasing tree cover in river catchments”

Farmers and Brexit

This report has been circling its way round the blogosphere and the farming community for the last month so there is a good chance you have already come across it. Nonetheless I thought it was worth flagging up again in the light of the open letter to the Times newspaper, published last Saturday, in whichContinueContinue reading “Farmers and Brexit”

Rewilding: to subsidise or not to subsidise?

I have recently been having a number of conversations with others relating to the need to engage farmers and landowners with the rewilding debate. The rewilding campaign has, perhaps predictably, been led from within the conservation movement itself and has perhaps sidelined and isolated many of those who actually manage the majority of land -ContinueContinue reading “Rewilding: to subsidise or not to subsidise?”

Longplayer 2013: Reflections from Richard Mabey and Richard Holloway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gE7qasjEOs From the intricacies of bird song to the pulsations of the amoeba and the long calls of the humpback whale, nature writer Richard Mabey joins Richard Holloway in this, the 2013 Longplayer conversation to explore a whole host of issues straddling the lines and connections between nature, philosophy, morality, science, literature and music. IfContinueContinue reading “Longplayer 2013: Reflections from Richard Mabey and Richard Holloway”