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The Link Blog is a space for members, and others, to express their views about the natural environment.


It includes our year plan and Agriculture Bill series, as well as our Blueprint for Water focused blogs.

If you would like to contribute a blog, please contact Emma Adler.

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A nature positive UK? Not without new money for nature in this week’s Spending Review

Published on: 25 October 2021

Ahead of the Spending Review on Wednesday, Paul Morling, Chief Economist at RSPB gives us a breakdown of what the government need to do to bring biodiversity back from the brink and heed recovery, both for the economy and for nature.

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Concerted action is needed on Environmental Rights

Published on: 21 October 2021

Co-Chair of the Link Legal Strategy Group Carol Day makes the case for a Environmental Rights Act, to secure access to environmental justice for all.

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How rewilding can help build a Nature-Based Economy

Published on: 20 October 2021

Guy Shrubsole, Policy and Campaigns Coordinator at Rewilding Britain, explains new analysis that shows that rewilding generates jobs. Read more in RB's newly published report 'Rewilding and the rural economy.'

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A Global Agreement for Nature

Published on: 15 October 2021

Georgina Chandler, Senior International Policy Officer at RSPB, reflects on this week's opening of the Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 in Kunming, and sets out what needs to happen in the run up to the main negotiations next year.

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Digging deeper during the Agricultural Transition

Published on: 14 October 2021

Dr Richard Benwell, CEO of Wildlife and Countryside Link discusses the state of play on agricultural policy, and outlines the recommendations from Link's new report 'Digging Deeper'.

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Wildlife & Countryside Act: 40 years old today

Published on: 14 October 2021

Dr Richard Benwell, CEO of Wildlife and Countryside Link, discusses the future of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981

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Weekly volunteering on Skomer Island

Published on: 12 October 2021

Ceris Aston, Assistant Warden at Skomer Island, shares the exciting upcoming weekly volunteering opportunities on Skomer Island in 2022 - home to 34,500 puffins, 350,000 pairs of Manx Shearwaters, and its own subspecies of vole!

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Time to Fix the Broken Water Sector

Published on: 11 October 2021

Stuart Singleton-White and Janina Gray discuss the Angling Trust and Salmon & Trout Conservation's new 'shadow' strategic policy statement for Ofwat, and why what might seem a minor, technical detail is in fact vital for our freshwater environment.

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Celebrating National Badger Day during a tough time for badgers

Published on: 6 October 2021

To mark Badger Day 2021 Adam Laidlaw, Executive Director of Badger Trust, writes on the challenges facing this iconic British mammal.

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Power to the People to Revive our Rivers

Published on: 5 October 2021

A week on from their landmark 'State of Our Rivers' report, Mark Lloyd (CEO, The Rivers Trust) shares why 'knowledge is power' when it comes to our freshwater environment.

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