News and In-Depth Features
- Involving young people in governance
- Thousands wade-in to protect UK seas – The Wildlife Trusts’ marine review 2019
- HS2 – new report reveals exorbitant cost to nature
- Reaction: Environment and Fisheries Bills published today - an important first step towards wildlife recovery
- National Trust response to the new Environment Bill
- New report reveals hedgehogs, yellowhammers and dragonflies at risk post-EU Exit
- Thousands ask Prime Minister to stop and re-think HS, high speed rail plans risk devastating environmental damage.
- Grow a secret garden for butterflies!
- Government gives badgers a reprieve
- Budget 2020 – significant new funding needed to restore nature and tackle climate change
- Campaigner Craig Bennett joins The Wildlife Trusts at a critical time
- Protecting and restoring nature is more essential than ever
- Dare to be wild! New review says get long-lasting feel-good factor from 30 Days Wild
- Over 1000 care homes sign-up to go wild this June
- Kick-start nature’s recovery and absorb a third of UK emissions
- New report calls for ambitious pesticide reduction target
- The Wildlife Trusts’ response to the Chancellor’s economic recovery package
- Bison to help bring back UK wildlife
- Fears the badger cull will be expanded and vaccinated badgers will be shot despite Government commitment to move away from lethal control
- Government U-turn on promises to end badger culling
- Government’s planning reforms must address the nature and climate crisis
- The Wildlife Trusts launch £30 million appeal to kickstart nature’s recovery across 30% of land and sea by 2030
- Crucial moment for the Agriculture Bill threatens the recovery of nature
- The Wildlife Trusts to “harness the power of nature” in fight against climate change
- Environmental groups and Monty Don write to Government calling for end to use of peat compost
- The Wildlife Trusts welcome Liz Bonnin as new president
- New Government farming announcement will frustrate farmers and fail to help nature fast enough
- Horror at destruction of nationally important UK river
- The Wildlife Trusts’ marine review 2020
- Thousands sign petition against Government’s emergency authorisation of bee-killing pesticide
- Reported in the Telegraph: Boris Johnson’s flagship Environment Bill is to be delayed by at least six months, after ministers ran out of time to pass it in Parliament.
- The Wildlife Trusts explore legal challenge to Government decision to allow emergency use of neonicotinoid
- Government inertia on peatlands risks international embarrassment
- 2021 will be a record year for beaver releases
- Stay of execution for bees in 2021
- Government on course to weaken post-Brexit environmental principles
- Government falls short of delivering promised ‘green Brexit'
- Gardeners urged to help beetles
- Pioneering ‘Nature Friendly Schools’ to boost children’s learning and well-being at a critical time
- Survey of top retailers: only one of 20 says they will eliminate peat this year
- Almost £8 million raised in 6 months for The Wildlife Trusts’ nature recovery plans
- Businesses urged to rewild employees with 30 Days Wild in June
- The Wildlife Trusts announce senior role for climate action at key moment for the UK
- The Wildlife Trusts' response to the Government's Tree Action Plan
- 30 Days Wild – the UK’s biggest nature challenge – reveals people’s favourite ‘random acts of wildness’
- Response: Government approves badger culling to 2026 and ignores public consultation
- Housing, health and planning must invest in nature to improve people’s lives, help cut emissions and rebuild the economy
- Public urged to record and help insects as UK enters ‘peak beetle’ season
- Government says yes to Highly Protected Marine Areas
- Rewriting Extinction Launches 12-Month Campaign to Save the World
- 208,498 people back legal target for nature’s recovery
- New funding for 12 high-impact projects to help tackle the climate crisis
- Sunflowers power £2 million for nature’s recovery
- The Wildlife Trusts welcome golden opportunity for beavers to be wild
- New handbook for schools and children to act on climate change
- New report reveals pollution is biggest threat to wildlife on our waterways
- The Wildlife Trusts raise £25m in a year to kickstart nature’s recovery
- Climate action needs nature. Nature needs climate action. Neither will succeed if we don’t prepare for a changing world
- Charities are key to get public to act on climate crisis
- Youth Manifesto calls for action on climate change
- Long-awaited Environment Act passed
- Public urged to go wild for beavers
- COP26: Baby steps forward, when giant leaps were needed
- Nature and climate spared as Government cancels HS2 eastern leg to Leeds
- Some of the nation’s largest landowners make unprecedented pact to jointly tackle the climate and nature crises
- New poll reveals people think children need more time learning in nature
- Birds, bees, and butterflies suffer as Brexit farming promises broken today