The UK government's 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment (25YEP), published in 2018,
together with annual progress reports and subsequent periodic revisions, represent the most …

We all participate in natural processes, which are facilitated by biodiversity. Changes in
lifestyles, farming practices, infrastructure and the way we work and live over the last half …

The approval of REPS 3 in June 2004 marked the first significant change to REPS since its
launch ten years previously in the Irish Republic. This was a response to the consultative …

The United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-
WCMC) is the specialist biodiversity assessment centre of the United Nations Environment …

Agri-environment schemes have been in existence in England since the mid-1980s, but it
was some 15 years before the need to conserve arable biodiversity became a major focus of …

Agricultural policy in Europe is changing from supporting production to encouraging
environmental benefits in the context of sustainable rural development. As a result, there is a …

The articles in this booklet are short summaries of a small part of the research undertaken by
Scotland's Main Research Providers as part of the Environment–Land Use and Rural …

For nature conservation to be successful, it needs to be integrated into land-use policies
over wide areas (ie outside those protected areas where it is itself the prime land-use) …

Part B of this document provides strategies, and actions to achieve the identified objectives.
It has been divided into sections that relate to the various roles and responsibilities of …

Agri‐environment schemes were first launched in England in 1987. A number of schemes
are now operated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food that invite farmers and …