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Essex car park to be test case for legislation to protect landscapes
Campaigners say car park extension at Manningtree station inhibits access to Dedham Vale and threatens habitats
A commuter car park in Essex is to be one of the first test cases of whether the government will enforce new legislation aimed at protecting national parks and landscapes in England.
Dedham Vale is a designated “national landscape” on the border of Essex and Suffolk, home to increasingly rare species including hazel dormice and hedgehogs. Within it is Manningtree station, where the train operator Greater Anglia built an extension to the car park to cope with increased traffic.
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Rats trained to sniff out smuggled rhino horn and pangolin scales
African giant pouched rats trained to alert their handlers when they find illegally trafficked wildlife products
Rats could be the latest weapon deployed in the fight against endangered wildlife trafficking, according to a study of rodents trained to sniff out pangolin scales, rhino horns, elephant tusks and hardwood.
Researchers trained eight African giant pouched rats to sniff out the contraband, even when it was hidden among items commonly used to hide trafficked goods, including peanuts, leaves, wigs and washing powder.
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World Bank, IDB introduce guidelines for sustainable finance instruments in the Amazon
Shell trims investment in clean energy to 8% of spending budget
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Ella Kissi-Debrah’s mother to receive settlement over death linked to air pollution
UK government offers undisclosed sum in compensation to Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah for daughter’s untimely death
The mother of a nine-year-old girl who became the first person in the UK to have air pollution cited on their death certificate will receive an undisclosed settlement from the government in compensation for her daughter’s untimely death.
Settling a legal case, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for Transport and the Department of Health and Social Care issued a statement expressing sincere condolences to the family of Ella Kissi-Debrah, from south-east London, who had a fatal asthma attack in 2013 after being exposed to excessive air pollution.
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Alarm grows over ‘disturbing’ lack of progress to save nature at Cop16
Fears raised that biodiversity summit not addressing countries’ failure to meet a single target to stem destruction of natural world
Governments risk another decade of failure on biodiversity loss, due to the slow implementation of an international agreement to halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems, experts have warned.
Less than two years ago, the world reached a historic agreement at the Cop15 summit in Montreal to stop the human-caused destruction of life on our planet. The deal included targets to protect 30% of the planet for nature by the end of the decade (30x30), reform $500bn (then £410bn) of environmentally damaging subsidies, and begin restoring 30% of the planet’s degraded ecosystems.
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Former Coalition minister and Nationals boss emerge as chair and CEO of solar and hydrogen hopeful
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Australia 3D network modelling firm lands $45 million to target global markets
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