Tag: The Wildlife Trusts

The Wildlife Trusts announces new £6m fund to support rewilding projects across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

The Wildlife Trusts has announced a new £6m fund to support rewilding projects across the UK. The programme, entitled ‘Transforming Nature’s Recovery’, has been designed to help support UK nature and reverse declines in wildlife. This comes as the latest State of Nature report unveiled that a staggering 40% of UK species are declining and 15% of British wildlife are threatened with extinction. As the British Trust for Ornithology has reported, the number of wild birds in Britain has declined by 73 million over the past 50 years. With birds being an…

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Nature 2030 campaign launches

Stuart Mitchell

Celebrities, charities and the public want radical new commitments for nature from politicians at the 2024 general election Major ‘Nature 2030’ campaign launches today with landmark 5-point plan for nature The 5 key asks of political parties include: doubling the wildlife-friendly farming budget, making polluters pay for nature restoration, a large-scale green jobs creation scheme, increased protection and funding for wildlife sites and a new law guaranteeing environmental rights New research shows the public is unimpressed with the Government’s performance on the environment. Only 1 in 10 (8-13%) think the…

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Celebrities, charities and the public want radical new commitments for nature from politicians at the 2024 general election

Stuart Mitchell

Celebrities including Steve Backshall, Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin and Mya-Rose Craig, alongside a coalition of 80 charities led by Wildlife and Countryside Link, are urging all political parties to ramp up their ambition on environmental issues in the forthcoming general election. The charities, including the National Trust, The Wildlife Trusts, RSPB and Woodland Trust, recently launched the Nature 2030 campaign. The campaign outlines a 5-point plan of landmark measures needed to restore nature by 2030. The coalition is calling on all political parties to get behind these proposals in their general…

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New study finds at least £4.4bn a year needed for nature and climate-friendly farming to meet legal targets

Stuart Mitchell

A new study commissioned by the RSPB, The Wildlife Trusts and the National Trust finds that at least £4.4bn a year must be invested in nature and climate-friendly farming by the UK and devolved governments over the next decade to meet legally binding commitments. The new report, An assessment of the financial resources needed for environmental land management in the UK, is written by an independent economist and reveals that at least £4.4bn a year needs to be directed solely towards agri-environment schemes that will allow the UK to achieve…

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Aviva helps restore rare native British rainforests

Stuart Mitchell

Aviva announces a £38 million donation to restore Britain’s lost temperate rainforests in the UK. Aviva believes this is one of the most effective nature based interventions to help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The restored rainforests will also provide a positive contribution to the nature and biodiversity crisis, as well as supporting flood protection and resilience. The donation is part of Aviva’s Net Zero 2040 ambition. Native to the British Isles, temperate rainforest is an incredibly rare and biodiverse habitat that once stretched from Cornwall to the west…

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