High impact HS2 needs a new vision
New report shows how large-scale nature restoration along the HS2 proposed route could help heal blighted communities and damaged countryside
New report shows how large-scale nature restoration along the HS2 proposed route could help heal blighted communities and damaged countryside
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…
In the latest post in our series about HS2, Ian Jelley sets out the HS2 ambition vs the reality as seen in recent weeks.
Wildlife Trust unveils ambitious post-Covid wildscape to replace notoriously bleak shopping mall
10th anniversary celebrates growth of Coronation Meadows.
The Wildlife Trusts unveil new nature recovery projects – restoring peatlands, saltmarsh, kelp forests, chalk grassland, wetlands and woods – to store carbon
• Policy failure to stop peat extraction has caused up to 31 million tonnes of CO2 to be released since 1990
• Peat extracted for horticulture in 2020 alone could release up to 880,000…
A new report published by The Wildlife Trusts today reveals, for the first time, the vast scale of the destruction and impact that HS2 will cause to nature.
The Wildlife Trusts are saddened to hear today’s High Court decision to allow HS2’s enabling and clearing work to continue. The risk these construction works place on irreplaceable habitat is…
Whilst much of the country is in lockdown, construction and planning work for HS2 continues to forge ahead largely unseen, putting at risk ancient woodland, meadows and other important habitats…
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…