The spring issue of the RSPB publication Conservation Planner is just out and here is a link to the document. As the editor has kindly included a link to this blog, it was the least I could do! Here is the link to the loads of other newsletters that we produce.
This issue highlights the challenges posed by the failure of members of the European Union to halt the decline of biodiversity by 2010 – a commitment made back in 2001 – but highlights some of the success that can be built upon beyond 2010. The success of the Birds Directive is a positive story at a European level and in the UK there has been good progress towards getting 95% of England’s Sites of Special Scientific Interest on the road to favourable condition.