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- Clean Water Now: Environmental groups launch major new campaign ahead of Water Reform Bill
- No more loopholes: CIEEM backs coalition call to strengthen Biodiversity Net Gain
- Response: Government’s PFAS action plan is a roadmap to nowhere
- Lack of wildlife crime convictions opening the door to other serious crimes
- Young homebuyers being forced into urban nature deserts, new research finds
- Decisive Supreme Court judgment upholds essential wildlife laws
- Nature at risk: report warns of ‘evidence black hole’ in Planning Bill
- Not adding up: new research shows UK is miles away from meeting 2030 goals
- Reaction: If reforms are to succeed, they must show that planning can be both pro-nature and pro-growth
- Government proposals would torpedo vital nature recovery scheme & biodiversity market, but new research shows a better solution for nature and development.
- Positive news for wildlife-friendly farming, but Defra spending settlement still leaves challenges for nature recovery
- MPs put on ‘Notice for Nature’ as charities warn Planning & Infrastructure Bill could demolish wildlife
- Most valuable nature sites on frontlines of harm from invasive non-native species
- Environmentalists and farmers unite against hammer blow to nature and food security
- Lack of ambition on Biodiversity Net Gain leaves scheme missing the mark for nature one year on
- Nature charities call for Water Restoration Fund to be formalised in Water (Special Measures) Bill
- Nature-friendly planning reform needed as over half of English Local Authorities missed legal deadline on actions to restore nature
- Response to publication of National Planning Policy Framework
- Bee killing pesticides polluting the vast majority of English rivers
- Groundwork calls for immediate action on green jobs to tackle nature decline across the UK
- Wildlife crime at worrying levels while convictions at an all-time low warn conservationists - as new data reveals national marine mammal disturbance problem
- Urgent UK nature rescue plan needed around COP16 talks to plug massive 30x30 target gap
- Hair and blood of UK politicians and environmentalists polluted by harmful chemicals
- Extreme weather is opening the floodgates to nature invaders in the UK
- Frontrunner councils show that Biodiversity Net Gain can be more than a glorified offsetting scheme
- Double down on delivery or Government nature targets will just be daydreams, says environment coalition
- “DEFRA has been in hibernation” Nature charities sound wake-up call for UK to meet global environmental targets
- Wildlife and Countryside Link launch ‘People and Nature’ mini manifesto
- Bee-killing pesticides found at wildlife-threatening levels in rivers around the country
- “Government has no credible plan” – reaction to report on progress towards goal of protecting 30% of England for nature
- Nature 2030 campaign launches
- Toxic chemical cocktails found at over 1,600 river and groundwater sites across England
- Huge nature access gap must be bridged to meet Government's 15-minute nature promise
- “An economic and environmental wrecking ball” – new figures reveal ripping up of retained EU laws could cost £82bn for the UK
- Record high wildlife crime levels could be worsened by new Government law, warn wildlife campaigners
- Prime Minister challenged to fast-track not back-track on support for farmers and nature
- Government has made no appreciable progress on its policy to protect 30% of the land and sea for nature by 2030
- Joint route map launched to boost ethnic diversity in the environment sector
- A backwards step for the UK in fighting the climate and nature crisis - nature campaigners hit out at plans to drop retained EU laws for protecting the environment
- Report for parliamentary group concludes that ban on lead shot can be achieved by 2024
- Urgent action needed as peat burning ban and restoration measures miss the mark
- Politicians come together to bring an end to toxic lead pollution
- World Oceans Day call for action as three quarters of Brits say better protection for our ocean is needed
- 10 species that can help save the world – new report highlights the need for UK leadership to restore nature globally
- New campaign calls for a ‘legal right to local nature’ in Levelling Up reforms
- Green charities deliver verdict on stalled “super year” for marine protection
- Rising reports of wildlife crimes during the pandemic spark fresh fears for beloved species
- Chancellor urged to commit at least £1.2bn annual nature funding ahead of climate talks
- English waters among the least healthy in Europe, and climate change will make this worse - Conservationists launch roadmap for restoring waters and wildlife
- Green nuggets in the Budget but not the Green Recovery hoped for
- 50+ nature charities and celebs tell PM: deliver on promises to protect nature, in law!
- Welcome EAC report outlines the groundwork for a green recovery
- Weak ban could leave England’s peatland moors burning during critical climate talks
- Partial peat-burning ban positive as a first step, but limits and loopholes leave cause for climate concern
- Spending Review leaves effort to avert a nature and climate crisis on ice
- Green Industrial Revolution must tackle climate and nature crises together
- New nature funding welcome but must be the start of sustained investment
- Wildlife cybercrime is in police’s sights, but wildlife crime underworld remains mostly beneath the radar
- Government warned nature targets will be missed without more investment
- 83% of public say Government should offer nature jobs to those unemployed in COVID-19 crisis and beyond
- Spend £6 million a year to save £2.7 billion on nature invader costs to the economy by 2040
- Official figures reveal not one river or lake in England is in good health
- Failure on global and UK nature targets a wake-up call that UK governments must answer
- Twenty-five thousand jobs could be created through government investment in a green recovery
- Twenty-five thousand jobs could be created through government investment in a green recovery
- Government and the public urged to help turn the tide for our struggling seas on World Oceans Day
- Reaction: Welcome Government commitments towards closing our doors on nature invaders
- Huge nature, well-being and climate cost of coronavirus
- eNGOs challenge Government to do more to avoid hamstrung environment mission
- Wildlife and Countryside Link response to the shift in Government's bovine TB strategy
- 8 steps to woodlands for climate, nature and people
- Government urged to make tackling climate and nature crises a top farming resolution