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The Wildlife Trusts explore legal challenge to Government decision to allow emergency use of neonicotinoid
Emergency authorisation was refused in 2018 – what’s changed?
Bad news for bees: Government reverses ban on bee-killing neonicotinoids
The Government has bowed to pressure from the National Farmers Union and agreed to authorise the use of the highly damaging neonicotinoid thiamethoxam for the treatment of sugar beet seed in 2021…
National Marine Week: Kimmeridge Seashore Challenge
This link will open on the Dorset Wildlife Trust website.
Are you a crab or a starfish? Complete a series of seashore challenges at Kimmeridge to achieve your award.
Water pollution rules expected to be weakened by the Government today
Today, the Government is expected to announce a process for weakening the legislation on water pollution to allow more housebuilding. Rivers – already under huge pressure from sewage and farm…
Grange Farm Bushcraft and Survival Challenge
This link will open on the Essex Wildlife Trust website.
Put your bushcraft and survival skills to the test at Grange Farm this summer!
Farming, food and nature – a triple challenge for this election
Politicians are notoriously wary of talking about food.
Nervous that anything they say publicly about changing the system will be construed as hiking prices of, or affecting access to,…
Watchdog or lapdog? A test of the Government's commitment to nature
With an announcement due any day on a new Environment Bill, Russell Cooper, Public Affairs Manager at The Wildlife Trusts, shares his expectations of the Government at this critical time for the…
The Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan published today
Stephanie Hilborne, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trusts, comments on the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan which is published today
Charities challenge Ministers: fix the Planning Bill, or nature will pay the price
In a joint letter, over 30 charity leaders issued a warning to Government calling for urgent repairs to the new planning reforms. The reforms fail to deliver the Government’s promise of a ‘win-win…
30 Days Wild challenge reaches new record!
Over 400,000 people went wild every day in June
The Government’s diminished ambition to restore UK seas is nonsensical
The health of UK seas is at rock bottom – they’re in crisis – so when the UK Government announced two years ago that it would be introducing a minimum of five Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs…