Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s Post

🦉 Did you know parts of Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside are important bird habitats for Merlins, Golden Plovers and short-eared Owls? We want to ensure that new homes and businesses in these areas have safeguards in place to avoid harm to these species 🗣️ The Joint Supplementary Planning Document is a key part of this, and we want your input to help shape it. https://lnkd.in/eeivr_XS

If you’ve used a state walk-in access program to hunt or fish on private land, you’ve experienced what the #FarmBill's Voluntary Public Access program can do. But what is VPA-HIP and how does it benefit hunters and anglers? Championed by the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership’s founder, Jim Range, VPA-HIP helps states create innovative ways of incentivizing private landowners to open their lands to the public for wildlife-dependent recreation. It is the only federal tool aimed at increasing recreational access on private lands, yet it is not nearly the most well-known of Farm Bill conservation programs. Learn more: https://bit.ly/48Ulnte

TRCP celebrates the 20-year withdrawal of over 220,000 acres of public land from mineral development in the Thompson Divide area of central Colorado, as this helps conserve over 40,000 acres of deer and elk migration habitat, 50,000 acres of elk calving areas, and 1,550 miles of streams. We believe these conservation measures will support quality hunting and fishing opportunities on the White River National Forest, Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests, and adjacent BLM lands. This outcome is the result of nearly a decade of collaboration between local governments, industry, and NGOs, and is a success for all parties who rely on large, intact habitats. To learn more visit: https://on.doi.gov/49lTzOr

What does the Ahtna Intertribal Resource Commission do? We work on projects to conserve, manage, and develop the fish, wildlife, and plant resources of the Ahtna Region according to culturally relevant values. Some of those projects include: - A sonar on the Klutina River to estimate escapement - Assessments of parasite burden in Copper River Salmon - Testing for heavy metals in moose in the Ahtna Region - Monitoring wolf distribution and diet - Assessing how many bears are on the land to help better inform management - A lot of advocacy work, from attending regional advisory committee meetings to federal subsistence board and board of game/fish - Creating a tribal historic preservation office to protect culturally sensitive sites - Administering surveys and writing reports to document local ecological knowledge of caribou And so much more!!

For Cliff Oxford, a Waycross, Ga., native, the Okefenokee Swamp is home turf. "The U.S. Fish and Wildlife is doing our business and what it is supposed to do in speaking for the woodpeckers, otters, ‘gators, bowfin, pitcher plants and the rest of the swamp habitat, as well as for all people who fish, hunt and walk in the swamp." Read Cliff Oxford's full opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: https://lnkd.in/e2pwfUUz

Restoration efforts on the Riverby Ranch Mitigation Site in Fannin County, Texas have provided a safe haven for over 200 species of birds, including a variety of grassland species that are currently experiencing steep population declines such as Dickcissels, Bell’s Vireo, and Grasshopper Sparrows. One such species, the Northern Bobwhite, otherwise referred to as “quail” or “bobwhite”, occupies a particularly valuable ecological and economic niche in this region of Texas, acting as an umbrella species for grassland bird communities and as a popular game bird and important source of income for rural communities. In order to determine the efficacy of restoration efforts on the population of bobwhite quail on the ranch, annual spring call counts, as well as various other bird survey methods, have been implemented with this spring count call conducted in May of 2024. Read more about the report here:

Bill Alert! US Senate Bill S 4227 - Joshua Tree National Park Expansion Act of 2024 Policy: Public Lands and Natural Resources Status: Bill Introduced Full Details: https://lnkd.in/eqk3rCpw Bill 118 s 4227, also known as the Joshua Tree National Park Expansion Act of 2024, is a piece of legislation currently being considered by the US Congress. The bill aims to expand the boundaries of Joshua Tree National Park in California in order to protect and preserve additional land for future generations. The proposed expansion would add approximately 4,500 acres of land to the park, including important wildlife habitats and scenic areas. T...

Spring brings changes above our heads and under our feet—like in vernal pools. 🐍 Vernal pools are temporary wetland habitats critical to the survival of several species. In Maryland, vernal pools typically form when fall rains begin in September. These pools eventually dry up and disappear in late summer, but they teem with life during the rest of the year, particularly in early spring. More than 700 species in the northeastern United States—including this spotted salamander—rely on these temporary habitats. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3OXpQEd

Given the current state of nature across the UK, please consider signing the Welsh swift brick petition which will benefit various bird species I'm sure that there must be some nature-positive approaches that originated within different industries or at least examples of where a company's environment team (for those who have them) to have advocated for their adoption as an intgegral part of doing business. Those should be celebrated. And local authorities and other public bodies should be encouraging/requiring nature positive measures in relation to planning approvals, their own housing and regeneration schemes, flood risk reduction, procurement etc. There is still rather a gap between what could be done and the status quo - you might almost think that there wasn't a global biodiversity crisis. Perhaps the Welsh Government might target resources and effort accordingly.

Check out this article from our local news paper. They cover a Fish Habitat Project that I finished just the other week. Great things are coming for the Tioga Watershed! Link: https://lnkd.in/emtJiaHj