Published on: 13 January 2026
New report shows that this Government risks becoming the first to break the law by missing legally binding targets to restore nature. Wildlife and Countryside Link (WCL), and 20 members including the RSPB, National Trust, and The Wildlife Trusts are urging the Prime Minister to act now to put nature’s recovery back on track following the latest analysis by the Government’s watchdog.
Read More...Published on: 8 January 2026
Today at the Oxford Farming Conference, the Environment Secretary, Emma Reynolds, will announce the re-opening of the Sustainable Farming Incentive, and her commitment to implementing the recommendations made in the Batters review.
Read More...Published on: 16 December 2025
The Government has announced a new exemption to England’s Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) rules, excluding developments under 0.2 hectares from the policy. While this is less damaging than earlier proposals to exempt all sites under 1 hectare, Wildlife and Countryside Link (WCL) warns the move still risks hollowing-out one of the most important nature protection policies in a generation.
Read More...Published on: 4 December 2025
Today the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) have released their latest review of the implementation of protected site laws in England (read here). Overall it shows a regime in serious failure: only a third of SSSIs are in favourable condition, deterioration is increasing, monitoring and enforcement have withered, and Government is nowhere near meeting its legal nature commitments.
Read More...Published on: 2 December 2025
Today statistics on the UK Biodiversity Indicators were released. They show broadly a trend of decline in the long-term and short-term. For species, only 2 indicators are improving in the long term and none in the short term.
Read More...Published on: 1 December 2025
On Monday 1st December the Government will announce the latest Environmental Improvement Plan. Announcements include £500m for Landscape Recovery projects to be invested over at least a 20-year period.
Read More...Published on: 17 November 2025
Today a coalition of over 80 leading conservation charities, land managers, ecological consultancies and rural businesses has written to the Secretary of State warning that proposed exemptions for small sites under England’s Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) regime would seriously damage the UK’s only national compliance market for nature.
Read More...Published on: 10 November 2025
Wildlife and Countryside Link's latest report on Wildlife Crime shines a light on the low level of convictions for such crimes, and also reveals the connection between wildlife crime and other serious and violent crimes against people
Read More...Published on: 4 November 2025
Today, over 40 of the biggest environmental NGOs and several King’s Counsel Barristers have written to the Prime Minister to ask that the UK Government reaffirm its commitment to the Aarhus Convention and reject any move to weaken the public’s right to defend the environment in court.
Read More...Published on: 30 October 2025
Nature groups are warning that mercury fillings should be banned across Great Britain.
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