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.
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...Latest Blog Posts