A new flow: pioneering UK river restoration declared a success, positive.news (Oct 21, 2024) - Sale of Essex acid grassland for homes would set ‘catastrophic precedent’, theguardian.com (Oct 19, 2024) — Idea that every habitat is replaceable is a misuse of biodiversity net gain, say ecological experts
- How restoring rivers' natural curves can prevent flooding, BBC Future (Sep 19, 2024)
- One in four neighbourhoods across England breach multiple nature pollution thresholds, friendsoftheearth.uk (Sep 03, 2024) — New research by Friends of the Earth shows 1 in 4 neighbourhoods classify as nature pollution hotspots. Pollution hotspots are areas where air, water, noise and light pollution levels all exceed safe thresholds for wildlife. Friends of the Earth is calling for the right to a healthy environment to be enshrined in a new Environmental Rights Act. The law would empower communities to hold regulators and public bodies to account to reduce the multiple layers of pollution affecting their areas to better protect wildlife and people.
- ‘When it’s sunny, we get the barbecue out’: urban gardeners transform foul alleys into verdant havens, theguardian.com (Aug 12, 2024)
July 2024[edit | edit source]
- Craft cider is surprisingly good for the environment, theconversation.com (Jul 25, 2024)
- House builders 'failing to deliver on nature pledges', BBC News (Jul 21, 2024)
- Regen, organic & agroecology: what’s the difference?, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 17, 2024)
- As effluent from sewage works and agricultural pollution flow freely into rivers, researchers and local citizens are urgently seeking to clean up the UK's waterways. New wildlife-rich wetlands could be an answer, bbc.co.uk (Jul 05, 2024)
June 2024[edit | edit source]
- Coalition of more than 80 nature conservation groups launch legal bid over wildlife loss, BBC News (Jun 07, 2024)
March 2024[edit | edit source]
- ‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England, theguardian.com (Mar 29, 2024)
- Dorset Wildlife Trust partners with Natural England to acquire Lyscombe Farm, dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/news (Mar 08, 2024)
Febraury 2024[edit | edit source]
- ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming, theguardian.com (Feb 25, 2024)
- Developers in England will be forced to create habitats for wildlife – here’s how it works, theconversation.com (Feb 15, 2024)
January 2024[edit | edit source]
- Chris Packham on why he’s angry, yet hopeful, positive.news (Jan 22, 2024)
- Brexit divergence from EU destroying UK’s vital environmental protections, theguardian.com (Jan 19, 2024)
- Nature in England at risk due to government failures, says environment watchdog, theguardian.com (Jan 18, 2024)
See also[edit | edit source]
- Biodiversity UK news (latest), 2023, 2022, 2021, 2015-2020
- Biodiversity news
- Biodiversity UK
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