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At Yorkshire Wildlife Trust we want to be an increasingly strong and powerful voice for nature, working to reverse the decline in Yorkshire Wildlife for generations to come. Our Policy Team are…
Head of Policy & Evidence
This is a new role, to expand and enhance our policy and evidence work in support of the Trust’s strategic goals so that we can demonstrate the impact of our programmes and provide the evidence…
Nutrient Policy: Fertile ground for change?
Today, Defra has announced a series of steps to assist farmers with the availability of fertilisers as disruption to global supply chains is dramatically increasing the costs of these products.…
Our response to the consultation on the future of farming policy
Our response to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
The Common Fisheries Policy – is it all bad?
A closer look at the CFP shows that if it did not exist, we would need to re-invent it.
What next for farming? Wildlife Trusts launch policy proposals
Ellie Brodie, Senior Policy Manager, outlines The Wildlife Trusts’ policy proposals for the future of farming and land management in England.
The National Planning Policy Framework and wildlife: our initial response
On 5th March, the government launched a consultation to ask for views on a major overhaul of the rules that guide planning for development: the National Planning Policy Framework. Dr Sue Young,…
The Wildlife Trusts respond to policy changes to cull badgers in low risk areas in England
Defra has announced a change in policy that will make it possible for badgers to be culled in areas of England that the Government have deemed ‘low risk’ of bovine tuberculosis (bTB). The Wildlife…
Fit for purpose? Reflections on emerging agriculture policy – will it help arrest the climate and ecological emergency?
Ellie Brodie, Head of Land Management, takes a look at how the Agriculture Bill and recent Defra policy statements are stacking up for wildlife and wild places.