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.
Read More...Published on: 30 October 2023
As the Levelling Up & Regeneration Act receives Royal Assent, Matt Browne and Emma Clarke of Link look back at how the legislation has been improved for nature - and ahead to expected new rounds of planning reform.
Read More...Published on: 27 October 2023
Stephen Russell, Policy and Advocacy Officer at Ramblers, Ben Seal, Head of Access & Environment at British Canoeing, Kate Ashbrook, General Secretary of Open Spaces Society and Cath Flitcroft, Head of Access, Environment and Sustainability at the British Mountaineering Council make the case for an Access to Nature Bill.
Read More...Published on: 24 October 2023
Following the recent release of the State of Nature report, Beccy Speight, Chief Executive of the RSPB, writes about how the report’s findings give us the best understanding of the state of nature we’ve ever had and, crucially, what we need to do to fix it.
Read More...Published on: 18 October 2023
The current lack of regulation for natural capital markets has led to concerns that poor quality or low ambition nature schemes could create a ‘wild west’ that allows certain industries or businesses to greenwash, while also missing out on opportunities to maximise benefits for nature and people. That is why Finance Earth, the RSPB, the National Trust, The Wildlife Trusts, the Woodland Trust and Federated Hermes Limited have co-developed a set of voluntary principles for science-based investment to support high integrity natural capital markets in the UK. James Alexander, Chair of Finance Earth, sets out the principles to ensure nature markets truly deliver for nature, climate and people.
Read More...Published on: 19 September 2023
Catherine Conway is the founder of Unpackaged, in this blog she outlines how the battle over reusable packaging at the EU level shows the challenges we will face in the UK in adopting the legislation needed to create meaningful change.
Read More...Published on: 11 September 2023
Dr. Mark Jones of the Born Free Foundation, Dr. Rowan Martin of the World Parrot Trust and Gretchen Peters of the Alliance to Counter Crime Online write on the opportunity to tackle wildlife trafficking through the Online Safety Bill.
Read More...Published on: 8 September 2023
As Iceland declares its intention to lift the suspension on whaling licences, Luke McMillan, Head of Hunting and Captivity at Whale and Dolphin Conservation, explains why this decision has ignited concerns for the welfare of these magnificent creatures.
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