Published on: 4 March 2024
Neonicotinoids (“neonics”) are a pesticide often used in conventional agriculture to protect crops from pests, however the real-world implications of neonics and other pesticides demonstrate that these chemicals do not just impact their intended pest targets. Ahead of a Westminster Hall debate on Tuesday 5 March on the environmental impact of Neonics, Link's Senior Policy Officer Dr Hannah Blitzer explores the risks they pose to wildlife and why moves to outlaw them have lagged behind.
Read More...Published on: 4 March 2024
Jen Davis, Cathriona Hickey and Suzanne Welch, co-chairs of Link’s Education and Learning Policy Group, explain the critical role formal education has in preparing children to adapt and mitigate to the nature and climate crises.
Read More...Published on: 27 February 2024
The 27th February marks the one year anniversary of the GB Non-Native Species Strategy. In this blog on invasive species, David Smith, Social Change and Advocacy Officer, Buglife, and Lisa Manning, Nature 2030 Policy & Engagement Office, Wildlife & Countryside Link, argue that the time is now to act on the threat of invasive species and protect our native wildlife.
Read More...Published on: 26 February 2024
Gemma Harvey, Professor in Physical Geography at Queen Mary University of London, and Stewart Clarke, National Specialist for Freshwater & Catchments at the National Trust, discuss new research reviewing the evidence for the role of rewilding in helping to build flood and drought resilience.
Read More...Published on: 11 December 2023
December marks the alignment of two major anniversaries of human rights and air pollution. In this blog on environmental rights, Hannah Blitzer, Senior Policy Officer, Wildlife and Countryside Link argues that the time is now to recognise the right to clean air and a right to a healthy environment.
Read More...Published on: 8 December 2023
With chemicals becoming an ever growing threat to people and nature, leaders in the fight against forever chemicals have outlined an action plan to transition to an economy that is free of such chemicals
Read More...Published on: 7 December 2023
Sarah Jordan and Una Devlin of Sustainable Health Care discuss the launch of Tree Equity Score in the UK, and how this new tool can help plant trees in the places most in need of the health boosts that come from nature
Read More...Published on: 16 November 2023
With the LNRSs poised and ready to begin work to save their local wildlife across England, Meg Griffiths, Conservation Officer at Plantlife, writes about Plantlife's recently published guidance to make sure that the strategies have everything they need to work for wild plants and fungi species.
Read More...Published on: 9 November 2023
Dr Maia Kirby is an outreach coordinator for Violation Tracker UK, the UK’s first wide-ranging database tracking corporate regulatory infringements. In this blog, she writes about how data can be used to follow regulation of the water industry.
Read More...Published on: 2 November 2023
Verity Winn, Senior Policy Officer (Agriculture), RSPB and Hannah Blitzer, Policy Officer, Wildlife & Countryside Link, highlight how gaps will be created in protections for water, soil and hedgerows when cross compliance for farmers and land managers ceases to apply from January 2024.
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