CJS News, Headlines from week beginning 9 December 2019

A round up of the top countryside, conservation, wildlife and forestry stories as chosen by the CJS Team.

Breakthrough in battle against invasive plants - University of Exeter

Atlantic Salmon return to Eycott Hill Nature Reserve - Cumbria Wildlife Trust

Marine life, fisheries increasingly threatened as the ocean loses oxygen - report - IUCN

First projects receive funding through new Peak District National Park Foundation - Peak District National Park Authority

Could dark carbon be concealing the true scale of ocean ‘dead zones’? - University of Plymouth

Groundbreaking bid to save Scotland’s disappearing mountaintop forests - Trees for Life

The European Green Deal - European Commission

Nature recovery: a key solution for our climate and biodiversity emergencies - Rewilding Europe

Parakeet ‘crime map’ busts Bogart and Hendrix myths - Queen Mary University of London

Students create a brand 'newt' home - Canal and River Trust

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Northern Ireland’s recovering pine marten population benefits red squirrels, but the urban grey squirrel poses a problem - British Ecological Society

Calls for bigger fines and longer sentences for wildlife criminals - Scottish Land & Estates

Scientific Publications

Chaniotis, P. D., Robson, L. M., Lemasson, A. J., Cornthwaite, A. L. & Howell, K. L. (2019) UK deep‐sea conservation: Progress, lessons learned, and actions for the future (open access) Aquatic Conservation. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.3243

Bidari Subekshya, Peleg Orit and Kilpatrick Zachary P. Social inhibition maintains adaptivity and consensus of honeybees foraging in dynamic environments R. Soc. open sci.

Johan Ekroos, David Kleijn, Péter Batáry, Matthias Albrecht, András Báldi, Nico Blüthgen, Eva Knop, Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki, Henrik G Smith, High land-use intensity in grasslands constrains wild bee species richness in Europe, Biological Conservation doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108255

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