{"id":7046,"date":"2014-01-17T19:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T19:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=7046"},"modified":"2014-01-17T19:01:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T19:01:39","slug":"ancient-woods-at-risk-from-government-offsetting-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7046","title":{"rendered":"Ancient woods &#8216;at risk from government offsetting scheme&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Developers could be &#8216;allowed to destroy ancient woodland if they agree to plant 100 trees for every one felled&#8217;, according to reports attributed to Environment secretary Owen Paterson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Paterson has suggested that his proposed \u2018biodiversity offsetting\u2019 scheme could apply to 400-year-old woodland. The newspaper says that under the scheme, \u2018the destruction of a wildlife habitat is balanced by funding for environmental improvements in other locations\u2019. Paterson said that offsetting schemes could be an \u2018hour\u2019s drive\u2019 from the original site, the newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Guardian article<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2014\/jan\/04\/ancient-woodland-cut-down-biodiversity-offsetting\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Save Our Woods article<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/saveourwoods.co.uk\/biodiversity-offsetting-2\/ngo-concern-as-uk-government-releases-its-consultation-on-biodiversity-offsetting\/\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Resource<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningresource.co.uk\/article\/1226059\/ancient-woods-at-risk-government-offsetting-scheme?DCMP=EMC-CONPlanningResourceDaily&amp;bulletin=planning-daily\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers could be &#8216;allowed to destroy ancient woodland if they agree to plant 100 trees for every one felled&#8217;, according to reports attributed to Environment secretary Owen Paterson. Paterson has suggested that his proposed \u2018biodiversity offsetting\u2019 scheme could apply to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7046\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7047,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions\/7047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}