A reminder to all that the Call For Papers for this year's ialeUK conference is now open.

This international conference will be very much of the moment. There is growing recognition of the importance of ecosystem services...

The Irish Programme for Government (2007) includes a commitment to deliver a National Landscape Strategy (NLS). The process is now in a draft stage and the final NLS will be published in 2011 and its duration will extend to 2020. Finally landscape has made its way to the political agenda...

The paper, published in the avian science journal IBIS, reports on work looking at the number of wintering birds feeding on fields planted with plots of wild bird seed mix. In East Anglia, the research found that there were a significantly greater number and range of ...

Landscapes provide a broad range of services to society. To date, however, only few regional to continental scale studies assess the capacity of landscapes to provide...

A new Future Brief focussing on the complex relationship between biodiversity and human health has been published and is free to download from:

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/future_br...

The last decade has been the best for rivers since the industrial revolution, the Environment Agency said today.

The Environment Agency has highlighted dramatic environmental and water quality improvements and the resulting recovery in species...

'Myview' - an online tool launched by the Woodland Trust gives local people the chance not just to tell their politicians what they would like to see but to show them. The gizmo (as the Trust call it) allows users to...

There is to be a Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology note on 'Landscapes of the Future'...

More than a quarter of the UK's rare species have been discovered by a large scale biodiversity study of farmland on the Norfolk/Suffolk border.

The University of East Anglia said its Breckland study revealed a "nationally important biodiversity hot-spot". A huge variety of species were identified, from the smallest gnat to birds, plants and mammals...

This project represents the continuation and the capitalisation of the results and of the experiences achieved in the PAYS.DOC, INTERREG IIIB MEDOC project.

Fifteen partners belonging to four European States are involved: Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece, with Andalusia as the leading region.

The project is divided up into 6 key actions...

The CJS Focus on Wildlife in association with The Wildlife Trusts is now online

It carries details of products, services and projects with a link to wildlife. Article topics include...

The Joint Research Centre’s Land Management and Natural Hazards Unit (H07) has just completed a comprehensive collaborative project focusing exclusively on life in the soil. One of the resulting outputs is the first ever European Atlas of Soil Biodiversity. 

The atlas is a visually stunning publication...

Contents for:

Vol 26 (1) Jan 2011 and Vol 26 (2) Feb 2011