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.
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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust hosts parliamentary event to call for urgent action to address the exploitation of biodiversity net gain exemptions
The event focussed on the critical issue of the mass exploitation of exemptions to Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), the flagship policy designed to ensure new developments compensate for any habitat…
General Election 2024: Trust calls for urgent action to restore UK wildlife
With the General Election announced for July 4th, the Trust has identified five key policy priorities that must be addressed to halt the decline of UK wildlife
Housing, health and planning must invest in nature to improve people’s lives, help cut emissions and rebuild the economy
New report calls on all parts of Government and local authorities to unlock the benefits of nature to society
Government U-turns and authorises toxic, polluting pesticide
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is highly concerned to learn the Government has agreed the use of a highly damaging pesticide - neonicotinoid thiamethoxam - for the treatment of sugar…
The Wildlife Trusts call for a new designation – Wildbelt – to allow nature’s recovery
New analysis of the Government’s White Paper, Planning for the Future, has revealed that, as they currently stand, the proposed reforms will increase the threat to nature in England and do little…
The Environment Bill needs amending to be truly transformational
The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust believes the new Bill needs more than warm words to produce the changes needed for a wilder future in Hampshire and the Wight.