Published on: 27 April 2016
There have been many environmental plans over the years and targets galore. They come, they go and nobody knows. If the Government is to make good its manifesto commitment to a 25 year plan to restore nature, this plan needs to be different: it needs change the nature of politics by elevating the politics of nature.
Read More...Published on: 25 April 2016
Read More...Published on: 20 April 2016
The government’s forthcoming 25 year plan for food and farming represents a great opportunity to look ahead and ask what we want from the future food system. The 25 year time-frame means looking beyond this government, or the next round of CAP reform, and considering how agriculture will adapt to dramatic changes – from new technology to climatic change.
Read More...Published on: 18 April 2016
As human beings we all need contact and connection with the outdoors, with fresh air and nature in all its various forms. A raft of evidence tells us what we intuitively know to be true: that activity and simply getting outdoors is good for us; and people with dementia are no different.
Read More...Published on: 14 April 2016
Nature, with all of its infinite wonder, diversity and richness, underpins our society, economy, and human wellbeing. It’s at the heart of what makes life worth living. But our wildlife and ecosystems have been greatly diminished through human actions in the pursuit of other seemingly more important goals and ambitions.
Read More...Published on: 18 March 2016
In recent years we have seen a shift in the use of social media platforms and online marketplaces which are being used to trade in endangered species, sometimes cutting out the middle man. This form of trading is often seen as low risk and difficult to detect and any new enforcement regulation from Defra needs to consider how we tackle cybercrime.
Read More...Published on: 11 March 2016
We are asking the Government to ensure that, in the drive to find more small sites for development and other land for housing, the views of the local community as expressed in local plans are given more weight, and that local heritage, wildlife and our special countryside has the right level of protection.
Read More...Published on: 10 March 2016
There are many things the Chancellor of the Exchequer could do to promote environmental sustainability that would be really good for the economy, and could even save the Treasury money! Environmentally sound economics makes simple common sense – now we just need the Chancellor to realise that.
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