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New report shows how large-scale nature restoration along the HS2 proposed route could help heal blighted communities and damaged countryside
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A new Vision for Food, Farming, and Nature
With the ever present nature and climate crisis making itself known, a collective of farmers, landowners and environmental charities came together to form a vision for food, farming and nature…
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…
HS2: failing in its vision, one phase at a time
In the latest post in our series about HS2, Ian Jelley sets out the HS2 ambition vs the reality as seen in recent weeks.
Nature recovery needs Government's new plan to succeed - but wildlife declines will persist
Dramatic increase of £1.2bn extra per year is needed to restore nature say The Wildlife Trusts
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…
New vision to rewild Nottingham city centre
Wildlife Trust unveils ambitious post-Covid wildscape to replace notoriously bleak shopping mall
New Government farming announcement will frustrate farmers and fail to help nature fast enough
Today the Government announces its Agricultural Transition Plan following the Agriculture Act gaining royal assent. The Act was heralded as a new start to move away from the widely condemned EU-…
Free the beaver! A new vision for beavers in England and Wales
The Wildlife Trusts say: end enclosures and take action for beavers to be wild
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…
New planning proposals will fail to protect nature
The Wildlife Trusts respond to new Government White Paper
Nature and climate spared as Government cancels HS2 eastern leg to Leeds
The Wildlife Trusts applaud the Government’s decision to “take a fresh look” and scrap the High Speed 2 Phase 2b eastern leg to Leeds.