CGO Ecology News...
- Ecological reports needed for all planning applications
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- DEKAMER turtle project looking for donors
- Early success for Devon smooth snake reintroduction
- Devon reptiles on the move
- Another new employee at CGO Ecology
- New home for Elizabethan garden slow-worms
- "Silent Summer - the State of Wildlife in Britain and Ireland"
- New employee at CGO Ecology
- Current CGO Ecology projects
- Amphibian disease concerns continue
- Reptile refugia deployed on Spur Road
- Spring season begins for CGO Ecology
- Reptile exclusion fencing on the A338
- CGO Ecology winter programme
- A338 Spur Road works continue
- BHS & ARC Joint Scientific Meeting
- A338 mitigation under way
- September reptile training
- Herp charities merge
- Dorset herp group relaunched
- Bespoke training available
- Reptile survey training, 8th June
- Spur Road reptile survey
- CGO Ecology filling its 2009 calendar
- Survey volunteers needed!
News
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"Silent Summer - the State of Wildlife in Britain and Ireland" |
Saturday, 24 April 2010 10:12 |
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Forty-eight years since Rachel Carson's seminal book "Silent Spring" awoke the world to the devastation that developed countries were causing to their native wildlife, a new book examines whether things have got any better or worse. Edited by Norman Maclean, the book brings together accounts of every major vertebrate and invertebrate group in the British Isles, and examines their conservation status. The amphibian chapter was written by Tim Halliday (Open University), and the reptile chapter by Chris Gleed-Owen (CGO Ecology Ltd). In 1962, Carson's book highlighted the role of agro-chemicals in the decline of farmland birds, and eventually led to the banning of DDT in the USA. In this wholly different age of eco-awareness, "Silent Summer" provides an important opportunity to see whether anything has changed. Most wildlife in the British Isles has continued to decline over the last fifty years, including massive declines in farmland birds. Maclean's new book provides a timely wakeup call. "Silent Summer" is available from May 2010 from Cambridge University Press. |
