Dredging: Effectiveness and risks
Widespread dredging could make flooding in some communities worse in future – not better – according to a new report published by The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (…
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The Wildlife Trusts join other environmental organisations and cross-party MPs in calls to strengthen post-Brexit environmental protections
The Wildlife Trusts today joins the Greener UK coalition of environmental groups today to announce that it is working with a cross-party group of MPs to strengthen the government's Repeal…
Environmental groups and Monty Don write to Government calling for end to use of peat compost
Environmental groups have come together to write a letter to the Environment Secretary calling for a ban on the use of peat in compost by 2025. Celebrity gardener, broadcaster and writer Monty Don…
New leader for The Wildlife Trusts – environmental campaigner Craig Bennett
Craig Bennett, has been appointed as the new CEO of The Wildlife Trusts.
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,…
Environmental Land Management Schemes (ELMS) Landscape Recovery
The Landscape Recovery scheme is one of the Government’s Environmental Land Management schemes (ELMS). It funds the development of landscape scale projects in England, to produce beneficial environmental and climate outcomes through habitat and ecosystem restoration.
The Wildlife Trusts urge for better plan as UK Government fails environmental targets again
Today, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) published its second annual report saying progress on around half the UK Government’s nature goals is either static or moving in the wrong…
Environmental Land Management is too important to fail, but risks remain
After the Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs Committee published its report on Environmental Land Management today, Barnaby Coupe, Land Use Manager at The Wildlife Trusts and Alice Groom,…
New housing must respect environmental limits and help bring back wildlife
Today’s budget highlights need to adopt a new nature-led approach to housing
Practical Conservation Work Groups
This link will open on the Somerset Wildlife Trust website.
The practical conservation work groups carry out essential habitat management tasks for the benefit of local wildlife. Tasks are dependent on the season, but include coppicing, fencing or walling…
Government on course to weaken post-Brexit environmental principles
The Wildlife Trusts call for rigorously enforced protections for nature and climate in law
Bank accounts for groups
Information about types of bank accounts for community groups. You need one to get money or grants. This tells you what you need to open one.