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This Monday (9 January), the Petitions Committee debated a recent e-petition calling for a ban on the use of snares. Nick Fletcher, who brought the petition, gave a detailed account of how a humane cable restraint, pioneered by the GWCT, differs from a traditional snare.
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the Petitions Committee is set to debate ““Make the use of free-running snares illegal for trapping wildlife” on 9th January and the GWCT has briefed Nick Fletcher MP who will lead the debate as well as other MPs who might be involved.
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In the run up to the commencement of COP15 the role of protection in wildlife conservation has been promoted by a number of eNGOS so we thought it useful to consider whether nature benefits from protection – and therefore whether more is the answer.
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You would think that there would be a single term to describe the removal of surface vegetation such as scrub, heather and grasses using fire. But this is not the case. There are regional terms, legislative terms and then just plainly incorrect terms resulting in nine possible descriptors for a single practice.
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The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill – often termed the Brexit Freedoms Bill – and the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill (LURB) have caused much consternation amongst environmental NGOs as both have mechanisms that will result in the current EU-derived environmental legislative framework changing. But is this cause for concern? Surely it’s what was expected from Brexit?
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This last quarter (July to September) has seen the policy team in England respond to three Defra consultations/calls for evidence (on the Biodiversity Net Gain metric, deer management and Green Finance) and three select committee inquiries (on ELMS progress, food security and sustainable timber).
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GWCT Chief Executive Teresa Dent was invited to give the organisation’s verdict on the government’s progress with its Environmental Land Management Scheme to the EFRA Select Committee in the Palace of Westminster.
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