'Nature-based solutions are now nature-based necessities': How climate impacts threaten the UK's protected green spaces

Cecilia Keating
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The Wildlife Trusts has published a series of recommendations for how the new Labour government can boost the climate resilience of the UK's nature reserves

The UK's nature reserves are sanctuaries for wildlife, stores of carbon, and a source of solace and well-being for millions of visitors each year. But they could look and feel very different in 25 years...

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