Category: Conservation
Chalk stream vulnerability
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The Times (£) reports that: “The HS2 rail project is struggling to find the water supply it needs to tunnel through the Chilterns as conservationists worry that the project could harm ecologically vulnerable chalk streams.” “HS2 Ltd, the company behind the proposed high-speed rail link, told The Times it was in talks with Affinity […]
Danes ban new salmon farms. Meanwhile…
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It is not often Dreamstore will cut and paste a press release. The communication (below) from Salmon & Trout Conservation needs little added. It is incredible that more Salmon Farms are being licensed while it is clear there is a fundamental issue with disease control. Not only has sea lice […]
Getting started
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Voluntary groups often remain as small informal sessions, meeting regularly, but with no set plan or objective other than as a place for like-minded people to get together from time to time. Many decide to take a next step and become more formal. In this day and age that means […]
Farming at sea
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A Panorama investigation into the sustainability of Salmon Farming is available on the BBC iPlayer in the UK for the next 11 months at the date this is posted. The iPlayer introduction asks: What do you know about the salmon on your plate? Panorama explores the £1 billion industry producing […]
One year isn’t a trend, but…
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Great news that the results from Year 1 of the new Greenland Salmon Conservation Agreement reports that 17.79 tonnes of wild Atlantic salmon were harvested at Greenland in 2018, far below the recent 5-year average of 43 tonnes. The result: thousands of additional salmon will be headed home this spring. […]
The grandmother who cleaned a beach for every week of the year.
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Most New Year’s resolutions are broken within a day to two of being made. Not for Pat Smith, aged 70, who resolved to pick litter from Cornish beaches; one outing every week of 2018, 52 in total. CornwallLive news site lists all of Pat’s 52 beach cleans. A fantastic achievement. […]
Small grants make a difference
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A reminder that small grants can make a big difference. Dreamstore‘s Small Grants programme was created to support voluntary organisations and groups to fund items that might help get a project started, pilot an idea or programme, or pay for kit that isn’t likely to be funded by some of the […]
Under the Sea
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The issue of plastics pollution in our oceans was brought into sharp focus by the BBC series Blue Planet II. Some of the weight of blame may have seemed lifted with the reports just ten rivers that account for more than 90% of the waste. Given the sheer volume of […]
Orri Vigfússon – words in action.
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Dreamstore has been pleased in the past to support the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF) in its central mission; helping towards the buying of commercial nets to reduce the impact of commercial harvesting on migrating salmon stocks. This remains an essential action in the conservation of the species. Orri Vigfússon […]
Under the sea
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Earlier this year Dreamstore was approached by the Cornwall County Girl Guiding Rainbows, the youngest of the Guide movement, about a milestone event for its 30th Anniversary to be held in September 2017. Hannah Hepton, Assistant Rainbow Adviser for Cornwall, suggested: “We would like to get the Rainbows to try […]