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Interesting article about innovative approach to BNG by a council #bng #biodiversity

Our Daily News about Sustainability, Ecology, and Climate Change Image: diversity of agents in a monoculture vs. diversity of agents in a syntropic successional agroforestry system Observing nature to manage companies Discover new insights into soil health that can inspire the dynamics of human systems. https://lnkd.in/eJkniwcu The article was written by Marina Utsch #NewPost #OPINION #thegreenamazonnews #thegreenamazon

Warwickshire County Council took a pioneering approach to biodiversity net gain, achieving big milestones for net gain policy well before it was officially mandated in early 2024. In his article for Environmental Scientist, David Lowe, Service Manager for Ecology, Historic Environment & Landscape at Warwickshire CC recounts their journey to introduce successful BNG policies. Read David’s account here: https://lnkd.in/evKBM8cT

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We need an economy that respects land and community—an economy that thinks ahead. Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) are one way forward, blending conservation with economic resilience. What do you think? How can we integrate ecology with economy? #Indigenomics #SustainableEconomy #CommunityWealth #IndigenomicsNOW

Billeter et al. (2008) identified a significant negative correlation between nitrogen fertilizer use and bird species richness. Birds in agricultural landscapes are more likely to decline due to cascading ecological impacts of high fertilizer use, such as reduced plant and insect diversity and eutrophication of aquatic habitats. However, increasing the area of semi-natural habitats (e.g., hedgerows and uncultivated margins) in agricultural landscapes can mitigate these negative effects by providing alternative resources and habitats for birds. Billeter, R et al. “Indicators for Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes: A Pan-European Study.” The Journal of applied ecology 45.1 (2008): 141–150. Web.

We need an economy that respects land and community—an economy that thinks ahead. Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) are one way forward, blending conservation with economic resilience. What do you think? How can we integrate ecology with economy? #Indigenomics #SustainableEconomy #CommunityWealth #IndigenomicsNOW

#UBCForestry professor Dr. Suzanne Simard has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential People List! Read below: "Human beings may pride themselves on the buried webs of wire and fibre-optic cables that allow far-flung populations to keep in touch, but the trees beat us to it—by many millions of years. That is the revolutionary finding of Suzanne Simard, professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia, and the author of Finding the Mother Tree. Deep beneath the forest floor, Simard has found, trees communicate via vast networks of mycorrhizal fungi, using those symbiotic life forms to help them share nutrients and even communicate information about threats such as disease and drought. Her TED talks have been viewed more than 10 million times, and her 200-plus peer-reviewed articles have deeply informed the thinking of conservationists and environmentalists working to help preserve forests in a world ever more threatened by climate change and wildfires. The trees, Simard teaches us, are talking. It is our job to start listening."

Our natural systems have different capacities to supply #EcosystemServices. A plantation forest of a certain species might be ideal for supply of timber but the supply of habitats for wildlife may be poor. The ForES team has published new research, in collaboration with the Nature+Energy Project team, showing how accounts of ecosystem capacity to supply ecosystem services can be accounted for. #NaturalCapital #EcosystemAccounting Here ForES postdoc Francesco Martini explains more on a methodology to create an ecosystem capacity index and capacity accounts: https://lnkd.in/g8_3ARD5

Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) offers an inspiring and hopeful mechanism to drive action by restoring nature lost via development, further increasing the importance of addressing the skills and evidence gap within the ecology field. The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) Autumn Conference has been a very insightful morning so far, with sessions focussing on aligning best practice with governance, stream and river restoration and involving landowners in nature recovery monitoring. Drop by our stand to understand how our team are underway with more than 2,500 acres of nature restoration.