Manhood Peninsula Partnership https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:23:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.3 National Wealth Service https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/national-wealth-service/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:06:31 +0000 https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/?p=5138 A new natural capital approach is needed if we are to save nature is the stark warning issued as a major new report on the state of our natural world is launched by Natural England. “Nature is the national wealth service”: says Natural England Chair, Tony Juniper, as he calls for new approach in a […]

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A new natural capital approach is needed if we are to save nature is the stark warning issued as a major new report on the state of our natural world is launched by Natural England.

“Nature is the national wealth service”: says Natural England Chair, Tony Juniper, as he calls for new approach in a major report. He goes on to say benefits provided by nature make it vital to national prosperity.

  • Natural England’s State of Natural Capital Report for England 2024 highlights vital link between nature and our health, wealth and security
  • Report points the way for decision makers to ensure nature and economic growth can work hand-in-hand

Natural capital is the parts of nature that provide benefits to people. We depend on it for the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. It boosts our health and wellbeing. It captures and stores carbon and has a vital role to play in helping us adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Natural capital is also an economic concept. It considers nature as a stock of assets, which we have to invest in. Ecosystem assets need to be in a healthy state to support the benefits society relies on

The State of Natural Capital Report, published by Natural England, provides a unique insight into the vital role that healthy nature plays in underpinning our economic health.

The report provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of our ecosystem assets, such as wetlands and forests, and the important role they play in sustaining us and the risks to society and the economy if the status quo is maintained.

Key findings:

Because our ecosystem assets are degraded, they are less able to cope with the impact of future change. Our assets are already very highly impacted by land and sea-use change, pollution, natural resource use and exploitation and climate change. There is currently a very rapid increase in the severity of impacts of climate change, associated invasive species (including pests and diseases) and land and sea-use change. This puts the assets and benefits we rely on at risk.

  • All of our ecosystem assets, and almost all the benefits they provide, are at high or medium-high risk:
  • Assets at high risk: marine; coastal margins; freshwaters and wetlands; mountains moorlands and heaths; woodlands.
  • Assets at medium-high risk: semi-natural grasslands; enclosed farmland; urban.
  • Benefits at high risk: timber and other wood products; produce from the sea; plentiful water; reared animals and their outputs; clean water; erosion control; flood protection; thriving plants and wildlife; cultural benefits.
  • Benefits at medium-high risk: cultivated crops; clean air; urban cooling; noise regulation; pollination; pest and disease control.

Priority actions and opportunities There are three main ways to reduce risk to natural capital:

  • Restore ecosystems.
  • Reduce impacts of drivers of change.
  • Make natural capital central to decision-making

Follow this link to read the Natural England press release on the National Wealth Service.

Follow this link to read the State of Natural Capital Report for England 2024

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Nature Towns & Cities https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/nature-towns-cities/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:56:01 +0000 https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/?p=5136 Millions of people living in urban areas lack vital access to nature and green space. Nature Towns and Cities will tackle this by helping local authorities work together with communities and partners to bring nature into every neighbourhood for all to enjoy. Follow this link to read more about: Nature Towns & Cities Natural England […]

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Millions of people living in urban areas lack vital access to nature and green space. Nature Towns and Cities will tackle this by helping local authorities work together with communities and partners to bring nature into every neighbourhood for all to enjoy.

Follow this link to read more about:

Nature Towns & Cities

Natural England press release on Nature Towns & Cities

 

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Three Harbours Strategy https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/three-harbours-strategy/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:56:04 +0000 https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/?p=5134 The RSPB is delighted to inform you that the Three Harbours Strategy 2024-2028 is now published! Fay Pisani, Project Development Manager – Three Harbours, said the following: I’m enormously grateful to all of you for supporting the work of the partnership to get us to this milestone and I’m confident it will pave the way […]

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The RSPB is delighted to inform you that the Three Harbours Strategy 2024-2028 is now published!

Fay Pisani, Project Development Manager – Three Harbours, said the following:

I’m enormously grateful to all of you for supporting the work of the partnership to get us to this milestone and I’m confident it will pave the way for accelerated action, greater cohesion and ultimately more wins for nature. Please feel free to share this with colleagues and wider stakeholders. It can be found on our webpage which is hosted by Solent Forum (gratitude to you).

Although this is a milestone we have been working towards for some time, this doesn’t meant we’ve been twiddling our thumbs. There’s plenty of movement on the high-level plan and I’ll give you a brief update on what’s been going on:

  • Langstone Harbour Board have agreed to the development of a Masterplan that will draw together and enhance existing partner plans to restore the natural assets in the harbour. It will also catalyse a flagship project that redefines the identity of the harbour around its green and blue credentials.
  • We are working with Southern Water to develop landscape recovery options for improved resilience against climate change and sea level rise across the Manhood Peninsula to inform future projects. This work will also refine a specific project that will improve connectivity and create wetland habitat around and between Pagham and Medmerry
  • The Farming Group has been progressing discussions regarding a trial of the nutrient leaching tool which would support farmers in reducing nutrient emissions from their land. Farmers from the Manhood Farmers’ Cluster Group are interested in taking part in a trial of the scheme which is currently being reviewed nationally.
  • As part of the CHaPRoN/Three Harbours Water Quality Group, we are developing a water quality monitoring programme focussed on nutrients. This is essential to understanding what is impacting our water quality and to inform interventions. It aims to standardise water quality data gathering so that all partners who collect data on water quality can align and the data becomes more comparable and provides a richer picture. Southern Water are hoping to support this with a research project that will contribute to the design of the programme.
  • We have commissioned a baseline survey of seagrass at Medmerry after finding colonies had naturally established (11 years since the managed realignment). The survey was conducted a couple of weekends ago by Fathom Ecology and we are awaiting the report, but this will inform measures to protect and restore seagrass and may also help us to better understand the conditions under which it thrives.
  • RSPB are investigating opportunities for the Beneficial use of Dredged Sediment in Langstone Harbour and hope to have a report in the coming months that will inform future projects to create saltmarsh friendly habitat.
  • We will be supporting the project management of the delivery of the Downs to the Sea Ferry Pool Wetlands project at Pagham Harbour which will begin delivery in 2025.
  • On the programme side, we have started to develop the Integrated Recovery Plan which will bring together all partner projects so we can all see in one view what all partners have planned. This will be mapped against themes of work and geographically, and will support greater cohesion across the partnership, prioritisation of activities, reduce duplication and should help us in matching funding to projects – basically making us more effective as a whole. I’m hoping to hold a workshop on this before the end of the year, so stay tuned.
  • And finally, we are in the process of establishing an Executive Board to which the partnership would be accountable. We hope this board will be able to leverage greater traction and progress on the strategy. They will meet for the first time in the coming months.

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Blue Space Forum Report https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/blue-space-forum-report/ Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:41:28 +0000 https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/?p=5132 There is a growing body of evidence pointing to the positive health and wellbeing benefits of being in, on or around blue space. In 2022 and 2023 the Environment Agency, together with project partners from British Canoeing, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Groundwork Trust, Natural England, the University of Brighton and […]

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There is a growing body of evidence pointing to the positive health and wellbeing benefits of being in, on or around blue space. In 2022 and 2023 the Environment Agency, together with project partners from British Canoeing, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Groundwork Trust, Natural England, the University of Brighton and the Wave Project, led the Blue Space Forum project.

The report gathered the lived experiences of people who use blue space to improve their health and wellbeing as well as those living with barriers to accessing blue space and its benefits. By understanding the challenges and opportunities for improved access, experience and engagement with the water environment, the aim is to help more people gain from its benefits. This paper sets out the findings from eight themed workshops that captured the lived experiences and perspectives of frequent and infrequent blue space users as well as experts in the areas of blue space, health and inequalities.

Follow this link to find out more and to read Blue Space Forum Report

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Moths and Coffee! https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/moths-and-coffee/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:00:06 +0000 https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/?p=5125 Join the RSPB at Pagham Harbour in one of their many forthcoming events this autumn and winter including Moths and Coffee, an irresistible combination! Did you know that moths migrate as well as birds? Autumn is a great time to set a moth trap – there is a good chance of catching species that have […]

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Join the RSPB at Pagham Harbour in one of their many forthcoming events this autumn and winter including Moths and Coffee, an irresistible combination!

Did you know that moths migrate as well as birds? Autumn is a great time to set a moth trap – there is a good chance of catching species that have migrated from the continent as well as our resident moths. Join RSPB Pagham for a brew and chance to encounter these fascinating insects. There are over 2500 species of moth in the UK and they come in all shapes, sizes and colours. Some have the most incredible camouflage, while others are brighter and bolder than butterflies. We’ll be introducing you to some of these marvellous creatures when we open our trap and there will be opportunities for photographs too.

Sign up for Moths and Coffee, and many other RSPB events at Pagham Harbour in the coming weeks.

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Medmerry Breach Photo Point https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/medmerry-breach-photo-point/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:01:23 +0000 https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/?p=5121 You can now take part in a project that is both citizen art and citizen science by contributing mobile phone photos of the ever changing Medmerry Breach. This is not only an art project but also an essential part of CHASM as we look more closely at factors affecting the coastal marine environment. Part of […]

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You can now take part in a project that is both citizen art and citizen science by contributing mobile phone photos of the ever changing Medmerry Breach. This is not only an art project but also an essential part of CHASM as we look more closely at factors affecting the coastal marine environment.

Part of Culture Spark, an art project administered by Chichester District Council, visitors to RSPB Medmerry are invited to take photos at a fixed photo point overlooking the Medmerry breach, and uploading them to an online storage facility through which they can be  observed and downloaded.

The objective of Culture Spark is to create an online observatory of the ever changing face of the Medmerry Breach. The additional advantage is that this citizen science project is also charting the change in the Medmerry foreshore for use by coastal managers, the RSPB, and coastal change scientists.

Follow this link to access the images taken at the Medmerry Breach photo point

 

 

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Tougher Regs for Water Companies https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/tougher-regs-for-water-companies/ Wed, 24 Jul 2024 07:56:40 +0000 https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/?p=5118 On 23 July the Environment Agency published its annual report on the environmental performance of England’s nine water and sewerage companies during 2023. Follow this link to read the .gov.uk press release about Tougher regulations as data shows water companies underperforming

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On 23 July the Environment Agency published its annual report on the environmental performance of England’s nine water and sewerage companies during 2023.

Follow this link to read the .gov.uk press release about Tougher regulations as data shows water companies underperforming

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Fibreglass Chichester Oysters and Mussels https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/fibreglass-chichester-oysters-and-mussels/ Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:36:13 +0000 https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/?p=5113 A new study by the University of Brighton has revealed worrying levels of fibreglass in oysters and mussels in Chichester Harbour. This marks the first time fibreglass or glass reinforced plastic (GRP) particles have been found entering the food chain. Follow this link to read the study into fibreglass in mussels and oysters in Chichester […]

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A new study by the University of Brighton has revealed worrying levels of fibreglass in oysters and mussels in Chichester Harbour. This marks the first time fibreglass or glass reinforced plastic (GRP) particles have been found entering the food chain.

Follow this link to read the study into fibreglass in mussels and oysters in Chichester Harbour.

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Cefas Climate Change Report https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/cefas-climate-change-report/ Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:58:34 +0000 https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/?p=5111 A new report published by CEFAS is shedding light on the future impacts of climate change on marine species across the United Kingdom. The study, which focuses on 21 marine species listed as ‘threatened’ or ‘declining’ ranging from sharks and rays to seahorses and oysters, aims to help policymakers and conservationists understand which UK species will […]

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A new report published by CEFAS is shedding light on the future impacts of climate change on marine species across the United Kingdom. The study, which focuses on 21 marine species listed as ‘threatened’ or ‘declining’ ranging from sharks and rays to seahorses and oysters, aims to help policymakers and conservationists understand which UK species will be most vulnerable to the future impacts of climate change and human pressures.

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Sussex Kelp Recovery https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/sussex-kelp-recovery/ Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:51:23 +0000 https://peninsulapartnership.org.uk/?p=5109 The Sussex Kelp Recovery Project, has published a Progress and Impact report to celebrate three years of seabed protection in Sussex. Follow this link to read this report and others on the Reports section of the Sussex Kelp Recovery website

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The Sussex Kelp Recovery Project, has published a Progress and Impact report to celebrate three years of seabed protection in Sussex.

Follow this link to read this report and others on the Reports section of the Sussex Kelp Recovery website

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