Network Rail tasked with boosting biodiversity around UK train tracks

Michael Holder
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Government publishes new strategy setting out how it expects Network Rail to protect and enhance the UK's railway line-side environment

A new biodiversity strategy for 20,000km of railway lines across Britain was unveiled by the government yesterday, in a bid to turn Network Rail into "one of the UK's most environmentally responsible land-owners"....

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