One year on from #COP15 what progress has Gov made to meet its targets for nature? New analysis has found that 👇 👈11 targets have seen no progress or have gone backwards ❗️7 targets have seen progress (in very small amounts) Read more 👉https://lnkd.in/g7cZbMGh 🌼 This is disappointing news for #floodplainmeadows which are already amongst the rarest most vulnerable habitats in the UK but which could deliver so much for societal wellbeing and resilient floodplains. Read more about our work this summer at: https://lnkd.in/eieb_wsp 🚜 Floodplain meadows have potential to help the UK meet targets on nutrient mitigation, flooding, water quality, biodiversity & sustainable food production: https://lnkd.in/eRsfUcA6 🍃 Which is also why #grasslands & savannahs must be included in countries' #NDCs & #NBSAPs https://lnkd.in/ez_kdHWt
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It's #WorldFoodDay! Species-rich grasslands like #floodplainmeadows are a key part of sustainable food production. Healthy animals, high quality food, supporting biodiversity, storing carbon, mitigating floods & improving water quality 🌸🐄🚜🍽️🌍
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Check out the call for abstracts for the UK River Restoration Centre (RRC) 2025 conference! Deadline is 28 Oct 👇
Read the latest RRC Bulletin! https://lnkd.in/eAtSYbQi #bulletin #information #news #update
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What’s happening in #FloodplainMeadows in October? Autumn grazing can go on until the ground becomes too wet. With heavy rains these meadows can store water to reduce damaging flood peaks in urban areas 🐄 🍃 💧 https://lnkd.in/g3T5akzz
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Today is #WorldRiversDay. #FloodplainMeadows are a key part of our freshwater wetland system that can help to improve water quality in rivers by capturing and removing polluting nutrients during flooding 💦 🚜🌱🍃🌼 Find out more 👇 https://lnkd.in/eym2u2WE
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Environmental charity Earth Trust, working with Church Farm Partnership and The Hurst Water Meadow Trust, have embarked on a significant endeavour called ‘River of Life’ Spanning 46,000 square meters - equivalent to six football pitches - it stands as the largest wetland habitat creation of its kind along the banks of the River Thames. This special project is not just a restoration effort but a demonstration of what can be achieved in rehabilitating canalised rivers and creating wetland habitats for the benefit of biodiversity, and people’s access to these landscapes 👇 Read more https://lnkd.in/eXGghN8S
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What’s happening in #FloodplainMeadows in September? Reflowering after the summer hay cut means we still have delayed or reflowering going on so hungry pollinators have plenty to forage on. A flush of autumn growth gives lush autumn grazing – and possibly a second hay cut 🚜🌼🌺🌸🐄 https://lnkd.in/gZEgK7Qs
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We’re here at the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) conference in Estonia #SERE24 These are the amazing Alma-Pedja floodplain meadows in Estonia. 1000 ha floodplain meadows in this nature reserve. No roads. Very remote. Previously 4000 ha but land abandoned and scrubbed over. The Alma-Pedja Reserve in Estonia was historically managed by mowing in June. Regulations then required mowing from mid-July for bird nesting and rare plant species requirements (Gladiolus imbricatus). However, this plant population was tiny and there were no great snipe there. Viljar Ilves was employed to manage the reserve as a local farmer. He secured permission to cut earlier - mid June as he felt the resource needed to cut the hay was wasted. Later cutting did not make good hay. Now the population of Gladiolus imbricatus has increased massively and great snipe have populated the area, so it is now the largest population in Estonia. Some key messages from Viljas. Rapid mowing now is similar to rapid mowing historically - same time of year, same time taken to remove the hay, but different methods. The picture shows hundreds of people were used to cut the hay. However modern mowing should be used wisely. Viljas plea: let's create a sustainable results-based and motivating management system by wisely using modern technology to ensure that invested resources achieve the desired results. Estonia are partly able to invest in these large scale restoration projects as they have a Semi-Natural Grassland Action Plan linked to a funding mechanism developed through a LIFE project. Plantlife International Natural England #regenerativeagriculture #floodplainmeadows #grasslands
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10moGood to see! At public inquiry I presented evidence to protect a river flood plain on the edge of the New Forest from mineral extraction. This showed the relationship the management of the wetland and the adjoining areas of the New Forest and backed this up with specific historic evidence from Tythe maps. As a way of illustrating how gravel extraction would affect the target meadowland and thus the management of the New Forest, I showed how gravel extraction in nearby river systems had replaced their meadows with gravel ponds, thus removing their potential to interact at a landscape scale with adjoining grazing systems. Unfortunately, my evidence had no real impact, which can happen because there can be important overriding strategic priorities at work which have to be sucked up for the greater good. But in this case, the inspector’s decision made a dismissive, almost infantile remark that showed that despite my evidence and the oportunity he had to explore it in public, he had no understanding of how gravel extraction in the case in hand would affect the managed interaction between two ecosystems, one of them, the New Forest, of national importance. The new targets show that things might be on the up!