There has been widespread misinformation blaming nature as a blocker to growth in the run up to the Chancellor’s speech this week, writes Joe Keegan, public affairs officer at The Wildlife Trusts.
We want to see a ribbon of wildflowers running alongside roads, and on roundabouts; supporting crucial pollinators like bees and butterflies. Small changes, such as mowing later in summer make a big ...
Over the space of a few weeks in spring, from mid-April onwards, bluebells set our woodlands ablaze with their bright blue flowers. The UK is home to more than half the world’s population of bluebells ...
For centuries it was believed that peatlands were of no value unless drained or extracted from. Today, it known that this is not true – so why are 80% of the UK’s peatlands still degraded? Peat ...
Charles Rothschild had founded the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves (SPNR - now The Wildlife Trusts) in May 1912, with the objective of protecting special places for wildlife. Over the ...
Over the past few decades, we've made great strides in recognising the importance of carbon storage to regulate climate in habitats on land, such as forests and peatlands. New, groundbreaking research ...