Water rail
From grunts and groans, to 'purring' and 'piglet squealing', the water rail is more often heard than it is seen! This shy bird lives in reedbeds and wetlands, hiding among the…
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Network Rail
Network Rail’s Eastern Region appointed The Wildlife Trusts on a three-year project to help implement their regional biodiversity plan required to support the ongoing management of lineside and non-lineside vegetation.
Track plans for The Sanctuary reversed
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust is pleased that Derby City Council has reversed its decision to build a closed circuit cycle track on The Sanctuary Local Nature Reserve.
How nature can help tackle climate change
Nature-based solutions to climate change describes how healthy habitats can help combat climate change through naturally storing carbon and helping us to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Rewilding and nature recovery
The UK has committed to protecting 30% of land for nature by 2030. We want to create bigger, better, and more connected wild areas for nature’s recovery, to allow natural processes to help restore nature’s abundance, resilience, and diversity.
High Speed Rail (HS2) - stop and rethink!
Proposals for a new high speed railway between London and Manchester puts wild landscapes including ancient woodlands and rare peat bogs under threat. The Wildlife Trusts believe the current route is too damaging to proceed, and that national development projects, including HS2, should be used to create and restore more wild places.
Spring 2020 magazine UK News
Updates from the Wildlife Trusts
Prime Minister challenged to fast-track not back-track on support for farmers and nature
Ahead of an expected announcement on its farming policy review, nature groups are urging the new Prime Minister to maintain Environmental Land Management scheme (ELMs) funding now and increase…
New vision to get farming transition back on track
Today, The Wildlife Trusts launch a vision for the future of food and farming - Food & Farming in a Nature & Climate Crisis - stressing that the time is now to get the farming transition…
Joint route map launched to boost ethnic diversity in the environment sector
• Sector-wide research and engagement has led to the development of a route map
which environment groups will use to boost ethnic diversity over the next 5 years
• 39 organisations…
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.
Learning to nurture nature
Fiona Groves, education and learning policy manager, reveals why a Natural History GCSE could bring young people closer to nature.