Published on: 4 December 2025
Ali Plummer, Director of Policy & Advocacy at Wildlife and Countryside Link, discusses the new Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP).
Read More...Published on: 30 November 2025
Ben Seal, Head of Access and Environment at Paddle UK discusses the 25th anniversary of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act, and why it hasn't yet delivered for waterways.
Read More...Published on: 27 November 2025
Philip Box, Senior Planning Policy Officer at Wildlife and Countryside Link, discusses the conclusion of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Read More...Published on: 15 November 2025
Planning reform presents a unique opportunity to transition to a planning system with the welfare of people and wild animals at its core. Nature recovery, animal welfare, and sustainable development need not be at odds. At the moment, however, poorly considered planning reforms, and a worrying narrative which places wildlife as a barrier to growth, will only amplify welfare harms to wild animals - including acts of wildlife crime committed during development. This blog by Kate Allberry, Scientific and Policy Manager at the RSPCA explores the link between development and animal harms.
Read More...Published on: 11 November 2025
Wildlife crime remains a threat to animal welfare, a risk for species survival, and a rotten blight on the communities and corporations where it has been allowed to continue for far too long. The latest publication in a series of Wildlife Crime reports demonstrates that the current approach to enforcement is still not working to catch wildlife criminals, and that wildlife is being failed by this continuing pattern
Read More...Published on: 4 November 2025
Carol Day, Solicitor, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Co-Chair, Wildlife & Countryside Link Legal Strategy Group, discusses.
Read More...Published on: 1 November 2025
Anthony Field, Head of Compassion in World Farming UK, discusses the recent Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan.
Read More...Published on: 27 October 2025
Philip Box, Senior Planning Policy Officer at Wildlife and Countryside Link, discusses the amendments we need to see in the final days of the Lords Report Stage of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Read More...Published on: 25 October 2025
Robson Peisley, BSc (Hons) Ecology and Conservation graduate and UK Youth for Nature Key Organiser, reflects on what the Planning & Infrastructure Bill means for young people.
Read More...Published on: 26 September 2025
Nick Hawkes, Campaigns Lead at Wildlife and Countryside Link, reflects on the first ever Wild Summit - the urgency for nature, uplifting atmosphere on the day, and what we need going into 2026
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