Kenya faces calls to ban use of hazardous pesticides
Campaigners have urged Kenya to ban the use of hazardous pesticides this week. This comes as a new study has identified that pesticides prohibited from being used in the European…
How the Forest of Dean Council declared a biodiversity emergency
I was elected to the Forest of Dean District Council in May 2019. Although the Forest of Dean is home to many people who value wildlife, there is a prevailing…
Scottish Greens announce the Scottish Government will deliver a £2.9m package for nature recovery
The Scottish Government will deliver a £ package for nature recovery work, the Scottish Greens revealed at their conference in Dundee. Scottish Greens co-leader and minister for green skills, circular…
The Environment Bill needs to go much further
Amendments to Bills can be opaque, impenetrable things: “delete the word ‘may’ and replace with ‘must’” and such like. Even with the increasingly standard practice of including a sentence of…
If we're going to help save elephants, we need to get our own house in order
There is, doing the rounds, a petition against poaching elephants. I signed it. But I wanted to add this footnote. I am not a cultural relativist. If something is wrong in one…