Momentum continues to build for the protection of Hampshire’s rivers as Southampton City Council and Test Valley Borough Council become the latest to pass Rights of River motions.

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is delighted to announce its official appointment as a Responsible Body by Defra (Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs), following its…

Local residents joined Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust for a Rights of the River Forum in Winchester

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.

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is demanding that the UK Government scrap draft legislation which would significantly downgrade crucial regulations that have protected the country’s…

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust welcomes Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council’s momentous decision, at Full Council on Thursday 15 May, to grant ‘personhood’ rights to local rivers…

Act now to stop the spread of water primrose before it’s too late

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust and the RSPB welcome the position from the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Rt.Hon. Angela Rayner MP, to uphold…

Authorities across England, including Hampshire County Council and Isle of Wight Council, are producing Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) as required under the Environment Act (2021). These…

A group of UK nature charities have written to Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP and Rt Hon Steve Reed OBE MP calling for action to protect the UK’s chalk streams in planning reforms.