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Government approves badger culling to 2026 and ignores public consultation
Today the Government announced that it will continue to issue licenses to kill badgers over the next four years. This will put 130,000 animals at risk of being shot.
Farmers and nature badly need ‘public money for public goods’
Farmers and nature badly need ‘public money for public goods’ – but the new farm environment schemes are a shadow of their original promise. Government must up its ambition and dig deep into its…
A Net Zero Strategy for Nature
The Government is due to publish its flagship strategy shortly for achieving Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions across the UK by 2050. Many are looking to this single document as a sign that the…
The Wildlife Trusts’ response to the England Tree Strategy
The England Tree Strategy is an opportunity for Defra to set out how trees and woods can play a role in tackling the climate and nature emergency through protecting, connecting, and expanding high…
Our response to the consultation on the future of farming policy
Government launches new ‘green watchdog’ consultation
Today the Government have published a consultation on creating a new environmental watchdog. Joan Edwards, The Wildlife Trusts’ Director of Living Seas and Public Affairs, writes on what’s needed…
The new Net Zero Strategy - enlightened, or a nature disaster?
In a week where the foghorn has sounded yet again over continued Government failure to prepare for climate change, we now have the revised Net Zero Strategy, a replacement for an earlier version…
The Wildlife Trusts’ response to the Government’s Net Zero Strategy
Today, the Government published its flagship Net Zero Strategy, which outlines how it intends to achieve Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions across the UK by 2050. The Wildlife Trusts believe that…
Events Volunteer
Are you passionate about wildlife and nature? Do you want to help us to inspire and enable the people of Cheshire to take action for nature? We are looking for a team of volunteers to support our…
Public urged to go wild for beavers
Crucial moment for ‘nature’s engineers’ as consultation closes 17 November
Hibernation – wildlife’s winter survival strategy
The Wildlife Trusts’ youth activism manager, Arran Wilson, draws on his background as a lecturer in zoology to explore what exactly hibernation is, and which animals rely on it to get through…