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At a time of housing supply crisis ... introducing BNG to virtually all new development has just wiped out any hope within the new housing market to deliver affordable housing. Utterly moronic pursuit of an aspiration with no joined up links to phase in BGN and it is clear that small site owners are far more likely to have to give up due to huge costs of 'off site' BGN and any new builds will now have far higher sale prices. BNG = OMG.

Oct 2024 - nearly all Plot developers [large and small] affected negatively. Massive delays to find ecologists, the cost of BNG Plans after Impact Assessments, 8 week for LPA's to process, cost/time preparing covenants/management plans lasting 30 years. Also, 'on site' BNG scoring not calculated for private back/front gardens leaving no hope for most to include onsite 10% BNG leading to expensive off site options.

Guy, reading your book ‘The Lost Rainforests….’ On page 169 under the chapter heading ‘Nobody Cares for Woodlands any more’, i read about the chain sawing of clumps of holly which is creating too much heavy shading. Until two years ago my son and I held the National Collection of holly and we still have 5 acres under holly now. We left the scheme due to a severe outbreak of phytophthora ilicis, which was causing havoc. Leaving the scheme so as not to spread the complicated fungus, we spent much time, effort and money giving support to our trees, with what we believe to be limited success. I know a lot about this plant, how it grows, spreads, lives and dies. Chain sawing clumps of holly down is not the way forward, in fact counter productive. Inadvertently this action may well bring in the phytophthora, which in a wetland setting would be disastrous. We have hollies in our woodland here and of course I have been watching it in the New forest and everywhere I travel. Much can be learned from Richard Mabey’s book ‘Flora Brittanica’ on which I leant heavily when giving slide talks to garden groups. Of course, I should have been talking to people like you and all the many push-back groups trying to restore our beloved, raped, denuded and stolen land. Your work is breathtakingly important, far and away above any other problem facing mankind. I know you are almost impossibly stretched, but even if there is someone else working towards a better future, please let me have my say. All my advice is free, and I have never taken a penny from the public purse. Just one clear point. Ilex aquifolium, our native tree of woodland, does nothing but enhance and nothing to detract.

This is a terrific book for all interested in wildlife and ecology. Do have a look--and buy it!

Fascinating insights into Sabah's conservation journey! Glyn Davies, your passion and expertise shine through in this video. Your work has undoubtedly made a tremendous difference in protecting Sabah's incredible wildlife. Thank you for sharing such valuable knowledge with us.

Here is a very cool followup to this lecture, talking about reef restoration th-cam.com/video/1uPKomlUJio/w-d-xo.htmlsi=dnjlVHaR8nUSRviF

Dear Sebastian: this is amazing research, i remember learning about the erosional nature of atolls in school and to find out we had it backwards is amazing and the idea of the resilience of these systems is fascinating. The description of the tidal pump illustrates so much for me about why reefs are such thriving populous ecosystems. All sorts of stuff, you fired my imagination today, thank you!

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I agree with Allan.

Extinction rates (1500-2009) peaked around 1900 at 50 per decade. Extinction rates have declined dramatically to around 4 to per decade in the 2000s. So the extinction rate is very low: 900 known lost species for 2.1 million known species in 500 years (IUCN), so from observations there are an average of slightly less than 2 species lost every year. Out of a known species total of over 2 million. That gives an annual percentage loss of less than 0.0001%. That's background extinction. At that frequency it will take over 930,000 years to reach 80% extinction of species experienced at the K-T boundary that saw the extinction of the dinosaurs. Of course, extinction is a natural part of the evolution of life on this planet with the average lifespan of a species thought to be about 1 million years (cf 930,000). It is estimated that 99.9% of all plant and animal species that have existed have gone extinct. It should also be noted that no taxonomic families have become extinct in the last 500 years. In fact marine diversity at the taxonomic level of families is the highest it has ever been in the Earth's long history (see Sepkoski Curve). In a review of 16,009 species, most populations (85%) did not show significant trends in abundance, and those that did were balanced between winners (8%) and losers (7%) (Dornelas et al, 2019). There have been only 9 species of continental birds and mammals confirmed extinct since 1500 (Loehle, 2011). No global marine animals have become extinct in the past 50 years (McCauley et, 2015 using IUCN data).

Rewilding is a no brainer,it works and brings back live to the countryside.

Very interesting! Thanks a lot!

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Guy, I need an expert in temperate rainforest restoration. I have a piece of woodland in Wiltshire that I am restoring. One part of it is very wet with moss, lichen and polypod on the branches. I am about to clear a large amount of rhodis from that area but I do not want to upset the micro climate. Do you know someone that could guide me?

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None of the speakers mentioned the importance of food production and security. Quite an omission.

bro get a mic

I would think that Sound quality was less of a great global challenge. Time to invest in a small mic.

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Thanks for posting great talk

Thanks for posting great talk