Labour's plans for restoring nature: a welcome start
Tonight, the Labour Party has published their plans for nature's recovery. Here, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trusts, Craig Bennett, reviews their plans and calls on all other political…
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UK food security depends on restoring nature: then why are wildlife charities excluded from the Farm to Fork summit?
At the Farm to Fork summit hosted today by Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, we’re expecting to hear an announcement on a new annual Food Security Index – to add to the UK Food Security Report that…
Farmers and nature badly need ‘public money for public goods’
Farmers and nature badly need ‘public money for public goods’ – but the new farm environment schemes are a shadow of their original promise. Government must up its ambition and dig deep into its…
It’s not too late to stop the catastrophic loss of our wild plants
Today the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland publishes its new Plant Atlas – it’s a mammoth piece of work by thousands of amazing volunteers who’ve spent 20 years surveying the wild plants…
British rainforests – a new approach for climate action, communities and nature
We’re facing a climate and ecological emergency. We need to move much faster in rolling out joined-up solutions at scale, while also avoiding greenwashing traps that will only slow us down - write…