environment

Devon Local Nature Partnership appoint chairperson

The Devon Local Nature Partnership (LNP) has appointed Suzanne Goodfellow as its chair.

The Partnership was established last year as one of 48 strategic local nature partnerships formed in England, and its board met for the first time in December.

Suzanne will be taking up the voluntary role with the aim of maximising the economic, social and health benefits obtained from...

Green spaces may boost wellbeing for city dwellers

New research published in the journal Psychological Science has found that people living in urban areas with more green space tend to report greater wellbeing than city dwellers that don’t have parks, gardens, or other green space nearby.

The research has been led by Dr Mathew White from the University of Exeter Medical School’s European Centre for Environment & Human Health, in...

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