Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation is a UK Department for International Development, NERC and ESRC-supported research programme - developing research on biodiversity and ecosystem services in a number of world regions.
Two new papers of particular interest.
JNCC (the Joint Nature Conservation Committee) have put UK biodiversity indicator information on their website - a slightly different set from the England biodiversity indicators from Defra earlier in the year but the same messages.
The UK parliament's House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology has released its report on strategically important minerals with a number of recommendations to government. The Natural History Museum, among others, made a written submission of evidence.
