A Natural Health Service
In this blog, Dom Higgins, Nature and Wellbeing Manager for The Wildlife Trusts, makes the case for a natural health service in the UK to benefit all our mental health and wellbeing
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Nature = Health
The world around us shapes everyone’s health and wellbeing. This is especially true of the natural world.
Mental health and the green environment, by Gavin Atkins
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Nature must be at the heart of the Government’s vision for energy and food security
The UK Government is set to publish an Energy Independence Plan and we are already seeing farming lobbyists push for greater intensive farming. These approaches fail to recognise the need to put a…
Nature is in crisis – the Queen’s speech on Monday must announce an Environment Bill to ensure its recovery
The Wildlife Trusts have long called for ambitious new laws that aim to put nature into recovery and we hope that next week’s Queen’s Speech will mark a significant point in history by including…
Pitting food security against nature recovery is a dangerous distraction – our food security depends on a thriving natural world
This week, The Wildlife Trusts announced the launch of a new £6 million programme, ‘Transforming Nature’s Recovery’, which will accelerate wildlife recovery in the UK by supporting rewilding…
Improving people’s health and wellbeing through a 25 Year Environment Plan
Dom Higgins, Nature and Wellbeing Manager for The Wildlife Trusts, comments on the Government’s ambition to improve people’s health and wellbeing through a 25 Year Environment Plan
Government must reboot nature-friendly farming schemes for food security
As farmers and the agriculture sector prepare to attend the big conferences in Oxford this week, Vicki Hird, strategic lead for agriculture at The Wildlife Trusts, writes, there are concerns about…
Nature for health and well-being
Spending time in nature makes us happier and healthier.
UK food security depends on restoring nature: then why are wildlife charities excluded from the Farm to Fork summit?
At the Farm to Fork summit hosted today by Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, we’re expecting to hear an announcement on a new annual Food Security Index – to add to the UK Food Security Report that…
HS2 Ltd approach to natural environment is derisory
The Wildlife Trusts condemn HS2 Phase 2b draft Environmental Statement. Public consultation closes Friday 21st December.
Mental Health and The Wildlife Trusts
Part of our Mental Health Awareness Series. Dom Higgins is the Health and Wellbeing Manager for The Wildlife Trusts.