Tag: The Wildlife Trusts

New report shows UK nature bearing brunt of chaotic climate

Stuart Mitchell

The Wildlife Trusts have published their new assessment of the effects of climate change on nature across the UK. The report, Resilient Nature, shows how much-loved species and habitats are faring across The Wildlife Trusts’ 2,600 nature reserves in response to the changing climate and extreme weather over the past year.  Whilst summer’s headlines were dominated by heatwaves and drought, the report reveals that over the past 12 months it has been extreme changes in weather patterns that have been the most damaging overall, with the natural world bearing much…

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Wildlife and climate campaigners unite in what could be the biggest ever march for nature

Stuart Mitchell

Environment campaigners are urging anyone who cares for nature to unite and march through London to Parliament Square on Saturday 22 June, with a simple demand to all political parties: Restore Nature Now.  This legal demonstration aims to be the biggest gathering of people for nature and climate that the UK has seen and is both a celebration of UK nature and a protest for urgent political action on the nature and climate emergencies.   The Restore Nature Now march is a peaceful, inclusive and family-friendly event. It is supported by…

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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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