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Defra fails to assuage fears over deregulation and farming reforms
The Wildlife Trusts' response to Defra's blog ‘Government reiterates commitment to environmental protections’.
New wildlife sites in Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Local Wildlife Sites - local in name only
Living Landscape Development Manager Rachel Hackett highlights the plight of Local Wildlife Sites – an essential part of the UK’s nature recovery network
Local Wildlife Sites under threat
Better protection needed for special havens
Andrew's Story: surveying Local Wildlife Sites
Underwater sites should be protected - because they’re worth it
Taking a longer-term, more holistic view of the impacts of Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) in the decision making process, rather than an excessive focus on costs is essential, says a group of…
Some protection reinstated for at-risk Local Wildlife Sites
Today the Government has published a revised version of its National Planning Policy Framework which now includes some reinstated protection for Local Wildlife Sites following a campaign supported…
The Wildlife Trusts write to Defra about missed Environment Act targets*
The Wildlife Trusts have joined other nature charities in writing to the UK Government about its failure to publish required nature recovery targets by the stipulated deadline of Monday 31st…
Defra confirms that ring-fenced funding for ambitious nature recovery has disappeared from farming schemes
This is a significant reversal on Defra's previous commitment to fund landscape-scale change needed for nature and climate in England. Barnaby Coupe explores what this means, below.
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Industry calls for ‘Gove guarantee’ on agri-environment schemes
Farming and green organisations have come together to seek a guarantee from Michael Gove that farmers and land managers who sign up to agri-environment schemes before the UK leaves the EU are not…