Last week ministers responded to requests from FOGL and other organisations to prevent Newport City Council from granting the application. FOGL – a grassroots campaigning organisation – have a mission to protect the landscape and biodiversity of the Gwent Levels from developments they deem damaging . Catherine Linstrum, of FOGL, said: There’s a reason why the dirty coal power station was closed down – and that’s because we’re in the midst of a climate and biodiversity emergency. Approving plastic incineration in the Gwent Levels drives a coach and horses through the Welsh Government’s policies on climate, carbon emissions. FOGL are worried that development across the Gwent Levels is putting sensitive ecosystems at risk.
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Feb 15, 2021
Extinct for more than 400 years, common cranes are finding homes in the UK’s wetlands and waterways once again.
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Because of conservation efforts that began in 1979, the common crane (not seen since the 1600s) now numbers almost 200 individuals in the country, with more than 60 breeding pairs.
“It is always great to get the opportunity to celebrate a real conservation success story and UK cranes is one of these,” said Andrew Stanbury, a Conservation Scientist at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
Organizations like the RSPB and the Wetlands and Wildfowl Trust (WWT) have formed The Great Crane Project, aimed at a massive translocation of birds from Germany into breeding sites in UK wetlands.
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More than one in three ambulance staff have had Covid-19, most of them catching it while at work
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SIR – I admire the attempts by Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, to reform the NHS to make it more responsive to the risk of future pandemics. He seems, however, to have rejected the Tories’ 1944 mixed private-state plan, flagged up by Allister Heath (Comment, February 11).
This may be because we already have such an organisation. Local private hospitals have, for the second time in under a year, been taken over by the NHS, meaning that patients who have paid large premiums for private health cover cannot access what they have paid for.