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Badger culling can’t be justified on any grounds
Call for cattle vaccine to be top priority to tackle Bovine Tuberculosis, not badger culling
Eleventh hour reprieve for one of the last bastions of nightingales
A controversial planning application to build 5,000 houses on one of the UK’s last strongholds for nightingales has been dropped just months before a Public Inquiry was due to take a closer look…
Campaigners call for more trees, less tarmac, in the Government’s forthcoming roads strategy
An alliance of 17 environmental groups is proposing a fresh approach to the Government’s second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) focused on improving existing roads and motorways rather than…
Wildlife Partnership Flying High
The Wildlife Trusts celebrate a flourishing 10 year partnership with Vine House Farm
How to bee-friendly this summer!
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and The Wildlife Trusts’ Bee Creative in the Garden! campaign is in full swing this summer and has had a fantastic response by gardeners who are creating…
Huge cuttlefish mural to be artist ATM’s first ever marine portrait
The UK’s extraordinary marine life is being celebrated with a colossal mural of a cuttlefish to mark the start of National Marine Week which runs from Saturday July 29th to Sunday 13th August.
Creating a new gold standard for the environment – the Secretary of State’s keynote speech today
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Michael Gove, promised to deliver a “green Brexit” in a keynote speech today and said that leaving the European Union provides a "once-in-a-…
The Wildlife Trusts calls on Government not to extend the badger cull and to prioritise cattle vaccine in the fight against bovine TB
Yesterday the Government gave the green light for supplementary licences for badger culling – despite opposition that The Wildlife Trusts and hundreds of other concerned organisations and…
Farming Minister George Eustice MP visits Hampshire farm to see how wildlife can thrive on a farm growing oats for our breakfast cereals
The Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, George Eustice MP, visited Hampshire on 7 July and met farmer, Nick Rowsell, who grows oats under the Jordans Farm Partnership with The…