The Coastal Squeeze
How can we protect ourselves without harming wildlife?
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Coastal
Coastal habitats are found wherever the land meets the sea. With some 17,800km, the UK has one of the longest national coastlines in Europe. The coast is home to many habitats, with cliffs, rocky…
How to make a coastal garden
Coastal gardening can be a challenge, but with the right plants in the right place, your garden and its wildlife visitors can thrive.
Hurst & Keyhaven Coastal Nature Reserve Forum
Hurst & Keyhaven Coastal Nature Reserve Forum
Wilder Planning
The planning system shapes the places where we live and work, and plays a vital role in determining the type and quality of landscape for future generations.
Planning for a wilder future or planning to fail?
The planning system is broken. Not only is it failing to create the type of sustainable, healthy communities that we all need but new development continues to tear up valuable habitat and further…
Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh
Enormous flocks of geese, ducks and swans swirl down from wide skies to drop onto the flat, open expanses of flooded grazing marshes in winter. In spring, lapwing tumble overhead and the soft,…
Protecting our coastal birds
The Solent is one of the country’s most important locations for over-wintering birds, but they are under pressure from human activity. Learn about our work to protect these amazing species.
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
The UK Government promised to protect and restore nature. But a year in, new planning laws are set to weaken environmental protections and create a 'cash to trash' system.
National Planning Policy Framework & Local Wildlife Sites
Yesterday the Government released the new National Planning Policy Framework for England. And the good news is that Local Wildlife Sites are back in!
New planning proposals will fail to protect nature
The Wildlife Trusts respond to new Government White Paper
MPs back call to protect chalk streams from harmful planning reforms
More than 10 MPs gathered in Parliament Square on Wednesday (4th June) to call on the Government to strengthen planning reforms to protect England’s globally rare chalk streams.