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Category Archives: Agriculture
Fish live in trees too
Ecosystem services are in the news a lot at the moment. Our latest guest blog is from Peter Leeson, who has been using the power of the moving picture to highlight how trees can bring huge benefits to us in so many … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Forestry management, Planting
Tagged Agriculture, Cumbria, flooding, food production, Holding Ground film, invertebrates, lancaster university, landscape function, Living Waters film, pollination, river flows, river management, salmon, soil fertility, trout, UK National Ecosystem Assessment, water management
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Pontbren farmers – a beacon for upland livestock farming
Demands on the land The traditional view of nature conservation, forestry and farming is basically one in which all three are seen as competing and conflicting land uses. This view is unhelpful. Farming not only dominates in terms of land … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Mitigation, Planting, Wales
Tagged Agriculture, benefits, clean water, economic, ecosystem services, environmental, farmers, farming, Farms, flooding, livestock, pollination, Polyscape, Pontbren, restoration, soil fertilit, tree planting, Trees, Wales, water, woodland. hedges
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Forests report – a conservation response
Ash disease and other pests and diseases – Austin Brady, Head of Conservation The Government response to the panel had its own long established timetable to follow, but this was dramatically cut across by developments on tree disease as the … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity, Community groups, Conservation, Forestry management, Forests Report, Planning, Planting, Policy, Protection
Tagged 3-point plan, access, ash dieback, biodiversity, biosecurity, CAP, chalara, Common Agricultural Policy, community, ecosystem services, engagement, EU, forests report, landscape scale, National Ecosystem Assessment, NPPF, PAWS, Planning, Tree health and plant biosecurity expert taskforce, tree pests and diseases, visitwoods, woodland culture, woods
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Agriculture Policy 2012 – a year of standing still
What a year 2012 was in agriculture policy – dynamic, innovative, outcome focused… Sorry, I have frequently been told that sarcasm is not a flattering attribute but it is either that or rolling on the floor, screaming in frustration! In … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Conservation, Forestry management, Planting, Policy
Tagged agri-environment, agri-environment schemes, agricultural policy, Agriculture, budget, CAP, Common Agricultural Policy, EU, European Parliament, farmers, farming, forestry, funding, payments, reform, Rural Development Plans, tree planting, Trees, UK, woodland management
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Silent spring
Fifty years ago today (September 27th) saw the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the seminal work widely credited with kick-starting the modern environmental movement. In it, Carson, a former US government scientist, documented the damage done to the natural … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Pollution
Tagged 50 years, birdsong, conservation, environment, environmental, movement, political agenda, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, warning, wildlife
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Wales Woodland Creation conference – not seeing the wood for the trees
Some reflections on the recent Institute of Welsh Affairs woodland creation conference On the surface this conference appeared a cacophony of vested interests and established agendas and not much evidence of a lot of listening. Into this the Minister John … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Forestry management, Protection, Wales, Woodland creation
Tagged acid grassland, agro-forestry systems, ambitious target, biodiversity, climate, conifer plantation, ecosystem services, environment, farming, farming sector, Forestry Commissioner for Wales, Increasing tree cover in Wales, Jon Owen Jones, Minister John Griffiths, nature, Planting Opportunities Map, science, Welsh Government, wood pasture
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Why trees?
I just had to share this fantastic, short doodle-video with you. In a nutshell, it illustrates why we work so hard to protect and expand our tree and woodland resource. Trees are so important to our lives, and they work so hard … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Inspiration, Pollution, Protection, Urban, Woodland and water, Woodland creation
Tagged air, asphalt, benefits, building, cooling, doodle, happiness, Health, heat island, nature, nutshell, People, pollution, rain, resource, road, save money, society, soil, temperature, tree, Trees, video, water, why, wood, Woodland, YouTube
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Committee publishes CAP report
Another bit of news today after an exciting week at Westminster, as the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee publishes ‘Greening the Common Agricultural Policy’. There is some good news with the report recognising that environmental enhancement through the Common Agricultural Policy … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, Conservation, Government Affairs
Tagged Agriculture, butter mountains, CAP, CAP reform, EFRA, environmental enhancements, landowners, NEA, NEWP, select committee, Trees, woods
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Hedgepig
We have an interesting guest staying with us at the moment. As I was walking across the field the other night I met a very ill-looking hedgehog. The obvious initial sign was the large number of ticks all across the … Continue reading
Simon Reeve’s revelations
Allow your mind to conjure up images of the Indian Ocean, what does it see? Beautiful beaches, clear waters and coral reefs perhaps. If you did the same for Madagascar, one of the largest islands in the world, what do you see now? Dense … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity, Conservation, Forestry management, Protection, Woodland and water
Tagged Agriculture, BBC, crops, deforestation, farmer, fertility, flood, forest, Indian, iPlayer, lemur, Madagascar, Ocean, reeve, reserve, Seychelles, Simon, sisal, soil, tree, water, wildlife
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