What a wonderful weekend it has been, picking apples and making cider. There are many signs that Autumn is now with us in the west country and one of them is the apples ripening on the trees. This weekend I was happily invited to join some friends at their farm near Bath as they preparedContinueContinue reading “Cider season!”
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New Markets for Land and Nature
Originally posted on A Dartmoor blog:
Prior to our vote to leave the European Union in June this year it was nigh on impossible to find an environmentalist who supported Brexit and after the vote had occurred there was a widespread gloom and fear about what the future held for the environment. However once Theresa…
A super day at the Naze
This is a short post to say thank you to everyone at Essex Wildlife Trust for making the AGM at the Naze on Saturday such a super day. The centre looked splendid and the sun shone as if seeming to give its own congratulations to what has been a long and sometimes difficult project, yetContinueContinue reading “A super day at the Naze”
Stand by for State of Nature 2016
Many of us remember the concerning headline statistics that were presented in the 2013 ‘State of Nature’ report, published by the RSPB and other conservation organisations 3 years ago. 60% of species have declined over the past 50 years and 31% have declined strongly 14% of farmland flowering plants are on the red list 65% ofContinueContinue reading “Stand by for State of Nature 2016”
British Agricultural Policy after Brexit
Originally posted on A Dartmoor blog:
Dieter Helm, an economist and chair of the Natural Capital Committee has just published an important paper entitled ‘British Agricultural Policy after Brexit’. You can read his paper here. It is a very important contribution to the debate as DEFRA / George Eustice and Andrea Leadsom begin to plan…
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