Good visit to Geltsdale, High Helbeck and Upper Teesdale. Waders everywhere, including drumming snipe from the hostel. Black grouse also impossible to miss. 3 Ring Ouzel and some early alpine flowers too

Lovely few sunny days seeing the sights of the North Pennines National Landscape with RSPB Science colleagues ☀️ so many black grouse, waders and spring gentians!

In our latest blog, Carina Millstone, executive director of Feedback, breaks down how the dismissal of their claim for judicial review of the UK's Food Strategy reveals fatal flaws in the Climate Change Act

Read here 👇
greenallianceblog.org.uk/2024/04/23/a-f…

Or both?

We did a letter to the The Times and The Sunday Times on the tragedy that so few sheep will get to enjoy the shade and shelter of solar panels

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ECIU

🗣️'We don’t have enough land to do everything we need to do. We certainly don’t have enough land if we’re not smart and data driven.'

Matthew Gould opens the #LandUseSummit , adding that a big issue with land use is siloed planning from different departments.

ZSL Science

To support nature recovery, any agriculture system has to provide high yields, be sustainable for the long term & support nature in farmland

Regenerative agriculture could be the answer but we need to define it says Lynn Dicks

👀Look out for our upcoming report

#LandUseSummit

En route to the Big Smoke for tomorrow's British Ecological Society ZSL Science Land Use Summit.

Train highlight: Fulmars somewhere north of Berwick.

Looking forward to catching up with colleagues and talking about this:

ZSL Science Matthew Gould Nathalie Pettorelli UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Defra UK DESNZ statistics Joanna Averley Georgina Chandler Oxford Biology Lynn Dicks Cambridge University Paul Behrens Leiden University POST (UK Parliament) Jan Webb The University of Edinburgh Natural England University of Leicester Chris Stark Climate Change Committee UKCEH Paper Alerts University of Portsmouth UofG_SBOHVM Nat Duffus South Hams District Council Following sessions on energy, food & agriculture and housing & infrastructure, speakers in session 4 will discuss how we can bring these priorities together for balanced #landuse across the UK

I know many of you will be shocked, but this piece by Matt Ridley in the The Telegraph on solar farms has quite a lot wrong with it

Let’s start with the impact on farming. Getting to the target of 70GW will take ~0.4-0.7% of English farmland

Not the ‘5-10%’ Ridley claims…

Wheater at the bottom of The Law (Tillicoultry) this morning UpperForth Bird News. Also a Golden Plover at the top of Harviestoun Glen near Kings Seat

Carbon-only estimates of forests may be up to 81% too high according to a breaking new study on forests and albedo change. ☀ 🌲 ❄

We already knew growing forests in boreal areas reduced its climate effect due to trees lowering the sunlight reflection, but this is the first…

'Numbers of birds captured in mist nets or observed along transects have declined by about 50% over a 22-yr period in a largely untouched lowland forest set within a large expanse of unfragmented forest in Ecuador.'

Global Alliance for the Future of Food Lynn Dicks Paul Behrens POST (UK Parliament) British Ecological Society Jan Webb Chris Stark Climate Change Committee Natural England Sue Riddlestone Bioregional UofG_SBOHVM Nat Duffus Oxford Biology South Hams District Council Following sessions on energy, food & agriculture and housing & infrastructure, speakers in session 4 will discuss how we can bring these priorities together for balanced #landuse across the UK 👇

Register to attend the Land Use Summit: bit.ly/3HIgsQD

Placard idea:
'End this 'End this net zero madness' madness'