In Practice Issue 123: Water and Ecology (March 2024)

 

Editorial

Steve Ormerod FCIEEM


Features

My actions to persuade organisations to tackle the climate crisis
John Box

Source to sea: Towards integrated water management in the National Trust
Stewart J. Clarke, Helen Jay, Jo Neville, Mark Roberts and Duncan Wishart

Rivers are essential to life: The Rivers Trusts look after them
Monique Speksnyder

West Chisenbury river restoration and wetland project
Alice Eley, Connor Goddard, Jenny Bennett and Oliver Howells

Sustainable management of freshwater ecosystems: What will it take and what can the Eddleston Water Project tell us?
Chris J. Spray


Viewpoints

Biodiversity net gain and solar farms: Could the sale of ‘excess’ biodiversity units threaten nature recovery?
Rupert Masefield and Alex Jessop

Meeting the challenges of evidence-based ecological consultancy
Richard (Dez) Delahay and Debbie Bartlett


Institute Updates

Ethical dilemmas

Membership update
Stuart Parks

Your registration authority
Sarah Cox

Policy activities update
Douglas Lewns

Green jobs for nature: We need your help

Planning your future training

From the country project officers

From the patrons: Save the Teifi
Jane Davidson


Sector News

Why neurodiversity is good for biodiversity
Helen Musgrove

British Ecological Society priorities for freshwater
India Stephenson