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Healthy soils: essential for food and wildlife
This Sunday marked World Soil Day; providing us an opportunity to recognise the important role soil plays in a healthy environment and therefore a healthy life – and to do what we can to support…
Enable Healthy Communities
More than one-third of the population - nearly 9.5 million households in England – are unable to access green places near their home.
HS2 Ltd approach to natural environment is derisory
The Wildlife Trusts condemn HS2 Phase 2b draft Environmental Statement. Public consultation closes Friday 21st December.
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
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
Planning by numbers
The time it can take to build out developments granted planning permission is too long. The Wildlife Trusts’ head of land use planning, Becky Pullinger, discusses why.
Mental health and the green environment, by Gavin Atkins
Part of our Mental Health Awareness Series: Gavin Atkins is Head of Community Programmes and Grants for Mind, overseeing a team that administers large scale projects with Mind’s network of 138…
Rewild the Planning System
Nature's recovery should be part of planning changes.
The English planning reform – planning to fail wildlife?
We are appalled that the Government’s proposals for reforming the planning system in England are to ‘tear it down and start again.’
Healthy soil – the ultimate essential infrastructure
As the Wildlife Trusts head off to the regenerative farming event Groundswell, where soil health rightly takes centre stage, Vicki Hird looks at the tools we need to restore and protect our soils…
Planning applications and wildlife
Development can cause serious harm to wildlife but it does not have to. Development can also deliver valuable biodiversity enhancement. Influencing a planning proposal is as much about promoting positive outcomes as it is about fighting harmful proposals. Information and advice on planning applications.