The Wildlife Trusts is calling for an immediate ban on all uses of peat for amateur gardeners and professional horticulture.
… peat for amateur gardeners and professional horticulture. A failure to curb the use of peat in horticulture has caused millions of tonnes of … peat for amateur gardeners and professional horticulture, warning a voluntary approach has …
‘Bee kind’ web tool helps people across the UK choose the best plants for pollinators in their gardens, window boxes or community spaces.
Online tool to help save bumblebees Staff Reporter | 10th June 2019 News Bumblebee Conservation Pollinators Change Makers bumblebee_october_2007-3a.jpg ‘Bee kind’ web tool helps people across the UK …
The native black poplar tree is now rarer than the giant panda with only 2,500 specimens remaining in Britain. The Crown Estate's conservation program aims to reinstate them
CASE STUDY: Saving the black poplar Hannah Davey | 25th February 2010 Activism Natural World Conservation Black Poplar Native Trees Woodland Protection Crown Estate black poplar 1.jpg Black poplar …
A new review of the performance of politically fashionable 'voluntary' approaches to environmental protection demonstrates limited effectiveness, writes Donal McCarthy. Laws and regulations play a vital role in protecting nature and the wider environment - for which voluntarism is no substitute.
Voluntary schemes cannot replace environmental regulation Donal McCarthy RSPB | 16th November 2015 Comment Law Regulation Conservation Pollution pollution-cut.jpg A new review of the performance of …
A written charter for land use must be adopted to best manage England’s land resources as part of the 'Big Society', according to academics from the Rural Economy and Land Use Programme
… Nonetheless, the ‘next big thing’ in urban horticulture has left me cold. …
Bullfighting may cause suffering to animals, but that does not mean the EU should ban it or withdraw farm subsidies, writes Robin Irvine. Traditional bull-breeding estates are valuable reservoirs of biodiversity in intensively farmed landscapes, and without the bulls there would be nothing to sustain them.
… You could of course argue that commercial horticulture employs more locals, or that …