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Air Pollution Dubbed “Public Health Emergency”
Government data has shown that air pollution in the UK is the primary cause of 40 – 50,000 premature deaths a year. This has […]
Return of the Native?
Recently, it has been reported that a pair of eagle owls are preparing to nest in North Yorkshire and this has once again opened […]
Wildlife Licencing Changes
A government consultation, ending on the 7th April this year, has proposed four new policies around licensing for European Protected Species (EPS). Natural England […]
Survey Season Kicks Off in Southall
With the first sunshine of April comes the start of the survey season in Southall. Work has already started on butterfly and bumblebee monitoring […]
Welsh activists vs drastic plastic
Welsh surfer and ocean activist Laura Truelove recently helped lead a beach clean with nearly 70 children and teachers from a Swansea school – and staff from A Rocha UK’s partner St Madoc Centre, Llanmadoc.
Kathryn Britton of Keep Wales Tidy also assisted with the two-hour clean-up. This marine task force gathered more than 30 bags of rubbish from one of these islands’ most spectacular shorelines.
‘Among the rubbish, there were all sorts from glass and plastic bottles to lighters, fisherman’s rope, cotton bud sticks, and even the odd shoe,’ said Laura (pictured), a representative for Surfers Against Sewage.