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Biodiversity Net Gain – the Basics from the Landowner’s Perspective
Recent legislation means that most planning permissions are now granted subject to a condition that the development will deliver at least a 10% increase in biodiversity value compared to the pre-development biodiversity value of the onsite habitat. Some local plan...
Lessons from the past
In Southwest Wales, at the very edge of the Gower peninsula, is a National Trust-owned plot of land known as ‘the Vile’, clinging to the edge of the cliffs which look out over the Bristol Channel and Irish Sea. The land is divided up into what might look, from above,...
Langley Abbey Environment Project and Spains Hall Estate Join aka.land Directory
We are extremely pleased to be featuring Langley Abbey Environment Project and Spains Hall Estate in our aka.land natural capital directory. Both estates have created flagship nature restoration schemes of local and national significance, providing a benchmark to...
Ghost in the Shell – the trade in phantom carbon credits
This week the Financial Times1 broke a story about how Shell, the international fossil fuel conglomerate, sold millions of so-called ‘phantom’ carbon credits to affiliates and third parties. In an ethical and properly functioning carbon market an organisation can be...
Reforestation and the golden rules
Would you have guessed there were as many as three trillion trees in the world? Read that again. Three trillion. That is about 400 trees for every living human being. And since trees first appeared more than 350 million years ago, during what was known as the...
Facing the Floods: How Climate Change Is Rewriting England’s Winters and Impacting Agriculture
Why is it so wet? According to the Met Office, the south of England experienced its wettest February in 2024 since 1836, and England has recorded its fourth wettest February on record. But this was not anomalous. Historic data also shows that extremely warm and wet...