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Wildlife and Countryside Link

'License to kill': Government's planning reforms face fresh warnings over 'catastrophic' threat to nature

Policy

'License to kill': Government's planning reforms face fresh warnings over 'catastrophic' threat to nature

More than 40 climate experts write to MPs as Planning and Infrastructure Bill moves towards committee stage to warn proposals could allow developers to sidestep environmental laws

clock 25 April 2025 • 8 min read
'Full of holes': Why green groups are calling for reforms to 'failing' Biodiversity Net Gain scheme

Biodiversity

'Full of holes': Why green groups are calling for reforms to 'failing' Biodiversity Net Gain scheme

Analysis by Wildlife and Countryside Link finds only a fraction of expected land has been supported for nature recovery through the Biodiversity Net Gain scheme since its launch last year

clock 06 February 2025 • 7 min read
Nature faces a make or break moment in Colombia - can the new government deliver?

Biodiversity

Nature faces a make or break moment in Colombia - can the new government deliver?

The UK has an opportunity to re-establish itself as a leader on the international stage at the COP16 talks in Cali, writes Wildlife and Countryside Link's Emma Clarke

clock 23 October 2024 • 3 min read
Study: UK falling far short of '30 x 30' nature protection goal

Biodiversity

Study: UK falling far short of '30 x 30' nature protection goal

Data shows less than three per cent of land in England is 'effectively protected', as reports indicate UK will miss this month's deadline for submitting national nature plan to UN

clock 03 October 2024 • 4 min read
'Chronic underinvestment': Government urged to tackle major shortfall in planning officers

Policy

'Chronic underinvestment': Government urged to tackle major shortfall in planning officers

EXCLUSIVE: Campaigners warn government plan to hire 300 planning officers equates to fewer than one new professional per local authority, at a time when housing and renewables projects already face lengthy delays

clock 10 September 2024 • 6 min read
'Sleeping giant of pollution': Environmentalists urge politicians to toughen up regulations of toxic chemicals

Biodiversity

'Sleeping giant of pollution': Environmentalists urge politicians to toughen up regulations of toxic chemicals

Wildlife and Countryside Link warns chemicals are polluting waters, soils, food and wildlife, as it calls for a revamped national chemical strategy

clock 13 June 2024 • 4 min read
 Extreme weather is 'opening the floodgates' to nature invaders, green groups warn

Policy

Extreme weather is 'opening the floodgates' to nature invaders, green groups warn

Campaigners call for an increase in UK biosecurity budget, as experts warn more intense rainfall will drive a 'surge' in invasive species that will damage the economy

clock 20 May 2024 • 4 min read
'Economic and environmental wrecking ball': Study tots up £83bn cost of Retained EU Law Bill

Legislation

'Economic and environmental wrecking ball': Study tots up £83bn cost of Retained EU Law Bill

Environmental and business groups urge government to ditch plans for bonfire of retained EU law ahead of Commons debate today

clock 18 January 2023 • 4 min read
'No appreciable progress': Government off track to protect 30 per cent of land and sea by 2030

Biomass

'No appreciable progress': Government off track to protect 30 per cent of land and sea by 2030

A new report from environmental NGOs concludes the government is failing to deliver on the 30x30 goal that it continues to champion on the global stage

clock 19 October 2022 • 5 min read
'Legal right to nature': Expanding green space key to 'levelling up' UK, government told

Policy

'Legal right to nature': Expanding green space key to 'levelling up' UK, government told

Over 60 green groups and professional bodies argue that 'legal right to nature’ should be placed at centre of government’s levelling up agenda

clock 21 February 2022 • 4 min read
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