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!
Yesterday the Government released the new National Planning Policy Framework for England. And the good news is that Local Wildlife Sites are back in!
Ellie Brodie, Head of Land Management for Wildlife Trust's national office, takes a look at how the Agriculture Bill and recent Defra policy statements are stacking up for wildlife and wild…
Much like trying to get healthy in the new year, I consider whether government plans to restore nature are a meaningful commitment, wishful new year pipedream, or a bit of both.
COP 26 isn't all about nations and world leaders. Your local council has enormous power to ignore or choose to deal with the climate and nature emergencies! Find out why councils are so…
Thanks to a Wildlife Trust campaign, Local Wildlife Sites have been reinstated in the National Planning Policy Framework as sites on which development should be restricted.
Many of our most precious wildlife sites have legal protections, but what does this mean in practice?
Volunteers from the Watercress and Winterbournes scheme are teaming up with the Angling Trust to expand their monitoring of our chalk streams.
We respond to the government's new proposals for agriculture policy once we leave the European Union
In 2019 1 in 7 species were threatened with extinction, now it’s 1 in 6, according to the State of Nature 2023 report launched today. When the last State of Nature report was released in 2019, it…