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Hairy bitter-cress is an edible weed of rocky places, walls, gardens and cultivated ground. Gathering wild food can be fun, but it's best to do it with an expert - come along to a Wildlife…
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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…
More ambition needed to reduce pesticides, say The Wildlife Trusts
UK Government publishes new pesticide plan today – The Wildlife Trusts respond
Scale of nature and climate crises undermined by low ambition farm payments
Today the Government has announced new payments for farmers which raise serious questions as to whether we’ll see any better environmental outcomes now than the era of the much-derided Common…
Huge disappointment at limitations of Bovine TB Strategy Review led by Sir Charles Godfray
The Wildlife Trusts' response to the Bovine TB Strategy Review.
UK Government must raise ambition for nature positive development say The Wildlife Trusts
From Monday 12th February, a new era for nature positive development begins when Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) will be mandatory for major developments in England; it will apply to minor sites in…
New report challenges councils to cultivate ambition for community food growing across UK
Evidence prompts The Wildlife Trusts, the WI, Incredible Edible and Garden Organic to call for a ‘Right to Grow’ in towns and cities.
Spring 2020 magazine UK News
Updates from the Wildlife Trusts
Without more ambition, Government agricultural reforms will put nature at greater risk
Today the Secretary of State, George Eustice, will speak at Groundswell – the regenerative farming get-together. Elliot Chapman-Jones says the Minister must stand by commitments not to repeat the…
Great news for Gwent Levels as motorway plans scrapped
The Welsh Government has shown its commitment to a wilder future today, after rejecting plans to build an M4 relief road across the Gwent Levels.
Yet again World Oceans Day is a good news day for our seas!
Joan Edwards of The Wildlife Trusts reflects on being a member of the HPMA panel and is calling on Government for an ambitious delivery plan for Highly Protected Marine Areas within a year.
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…