Biodiversity UK news
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2025
‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement, theguardian.com (Nov 25, 2025) - Nearly £500k funding offered for green projects, BBC News (Nov 09, 2025) — Maidstone Borough Council is offering nearly £500,000 worth of funding to support environmental initiatives to combat climate and nature crises in the borough
- Sir David Attenborough backs plan to buy estate, BBC News (Oct 29, 2025)
- UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development, theguardian.com (Oct 02, 2025) — Nature and farmland equivalent in size to that of the New Forest – 604 sq km – lost to concrete and bricks and mortar in the UK between 2018 and 2023
- Bottom trawling ban hailed by fishing groups, BBC News (Sep 29, 2025) — Fishing campaigners say a bottom trawling ban in West Sussex could be a "blueprint of success" for other parts of the South East
- Whitstable campaigners fight to stop 1,350 home development, BBC News (Sep 29, 2025) — local residents stepping up their campaign to fight what they have said would be the "largest ever development" in their part of Kent
- ‘You don’t get to aim big when you are somewhere small’: A teenager’s fight to end single use plastics on her Scottish island, theguardian.com (Sep 24, 2025)
- How Japanese 'tiny forests' are sweeping Scotland, BBC Future (Sep 11, 2025) — Grown using the Miyawaki method, fast-growing miniature forests in the middle of cities can bring surprisingly big benefits for people and the environment.
- Area of England well protected for nature is in decline, data shows, theguardian.com (Sep 10, 2025) — Wildlife coalition says figure stands at 2.83% of country, less than in 2024 and tiny fraction of the 2030 target of 30%
- As pine martens are reintroduced to south-west England, a new study shows why local people need to be involved, theconversation.com (Sep 09, 2025) — "...more collaborative relationships can be developed when people are involved in making plans for reintroduction."
- Why building nature-centric housing involves a mindset shift, theconversation.com (Sep 08, 2025)
- This was the hottest summer on record. If it happens again next year, Britain’s ecosystems won’t cope, Lucy Jones, theguardian.com (Sep 03, 2025) — A future of extreme heatwaves, drought and collapsing habitats awaits if we continue to ignore the danger signs
- The Ancient Woodland Practice Boosting British Biodiversity, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 28, 2025)
- ‘They’re beautiful’: 13-year-olds lead audacious project to save harvest mice in Devon, theguardian.com (Aug 28, 2025)
- From clean air to pesticides: how UK has lagged behind EU on the environment, theguardian.com (Aug 19, 2025) — Labour has continued to diverge from bloc’s laws, meaning most of UK’s protections are weaker than pre-Brexit
- Enlisting hearts and minds to save Somerset’s last eels, positive.news (Aug 18, 2025)
- Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill, Chris Packham, theguardian.com (Jul 15, 2025)
- The NHS ten-year health plan is missing a crucial ingredient: nature, theconversation.com (Jul 04, 2025)
- Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jun 13, 2025)
- Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals, theguardian.co (Jun 03, 2025)
- Kent landscape that inspired Dickens made nature reserve, BBC News (May 30, 2025)
- New Forest site secured for wildlife with help from Southern Co-op, thenews.coop (Apr 30, 2025)
- Butterfly project aims to halt population decline, BBC News (Apr 05, 2025)
- Why the British are flooding parts of their coast, Leo Plunkett, Sandy Watt, news.mongabay.com (Mar 19, 2025)
- Restoration is helping native raptors thrive in Scotland, report shows, positive.news (Jan 28, 2025)
- New insect corridor created to boost nature, BBC News (Jan 23, 2025)
- The UK’s international commitments on climate and nature could soon become law – and better protect our environment, theconversation.com (Jan 22, 2025) — Climate and Nature Bill (CAN Bill), includes a climate and nature citizens’ assembly
- Norwich Western Link road plans withdrawn due to concerns on bats, BBC News (Jan 21, 2025)
2024
- Hand-selected seeds are set to bring riot of colour and life to new road in Cornwall, positive.news (Dec 11, 2024)
- Slovenian girl, 12, saves project aiming to reintroduce cicadas to New Forest, theguardian.com (Nov 23, 2024)
- ‘A special place’: Guardian readers’ generosity helps to save rewilded farm, theguardian.com (Nov 14, 2024)
- A new flow: pioneering UK river restoration declared a success, positive.news (Oct 21, 2024)
- Sale of Essex acid grassland for homes would set ‘catastrophic precedent’, theguardian.com (Oct 19, 2024) — Idea that every habitat is replaceable is a misuse of biodiversity net gain, say ecological experts
- How restoring rivers' natural curves can prevent flooding, BBC Future (Sep 19, 2024)
- One in four neighbourhoods across England breach multiple nature pollution thresholds, friendsoftheearth.uk (Sep 03, 2024) — New research by Friends of the Earth shows 1 in 4 neighbourhoods classify as nature pollution hotspots. Pollution hotspots are areas where air, water, noise and light pollution levels all exceed safe thresholds for wildlife. Friends of the Earth is calling for the right to a healthy environment to be enshrined in a new Environmental Rights Act. The law would empower communities to hold regulators and public bodies to account to reduce the multiple layers of pollution affecting their areas to better protect wildlife and people.
- ‘When it’s sunny, we get the barbecue out’: urban gardeners transform foul alleys into verdant havens, theguardian.com (Aug 12, 2024)
- Craft cider is surprisingly good for the environment, theconversation.com (Jul 25, 2024)
- House builders 'failing to deliver on nature pledges', BBC News (Jul 21, 2024)
- Regen, organic & agroecology: what’s the difference?, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 17, 2024)
- As effluent from sewage works and agricultural pollution flow freely into rivers, researchers and local citizens are urgently seeking to clean up the UK's waterways. New wildlife-rich wetlands could be an answer, bbc.co.uk (Jul 05, 2024)
- Coalition of more than 80 nature conservation groups launch legal bid over wildlife loss, BBC News (Jun 07, 2024)
- ‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England, theguardian.com (Mar 29, 2024)
- Dorset Wildlife Trust partners with Natural England to acquire Lyscombe Farm, dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/news (Mar 08, 2024)
- ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming, theguardian.com (Feb 25, 2024)
- Developers in England will be forced to create habitats for wildlife – here’s how it works, theconversation.com (Feb 15, 2024)
- Chris Packham on why he’s angry, yet hopeful, positive.news (Jan 22, 2024)
- Brexit divergence from EU destroying UK’s vital environmental protections, theguardian.com (Jan 19, 2024)
- Nature in England at risk due to government failures, says environment watchdog, theguardian.com (Jan 18, 2024)
2023
- Plans approved to transform Lincolnshire golf course into wildlife haven, birdguides.com/news (Dec 30, 2023)
- Climate change: Seasonal shifts causing 'chaos' for UK nature, BBC News (Dec 27, 2023)
- River Dee Trust’s Million Trees Campaign, a project to save threatened salmon in the River Dee, wins one of the country’s most prestigious nature restoration awards, riverdee.org.uk (Nov 23, 2023) — More than 460,000 trees have already been planted.
- ‘A game-changer’: the 9,000 acre project reclaiming the Fens for nature, theguardian.com (Nov 04, 2023)
- The Wildlife Trusts publish list of the UK’s Government’s broken promises to nature, wildlifetrusts.org (Nov 03, 2023)
- Norfolk Wildlife Trust Renews Concern Over Proposed Norwich Western Link, change.org (Oct 12, 2023)
- ‘I call it botanarchy’: The Hackney guerrilla gardener bringing power to the people, theguardian.com (Sep 28, 2023)
- Nature crisis: One in six species at risk of extinction in Great Britain, BBC News (Sep 27, 2023)
- Farmers like me can contribute to a hedge fund for nature at little cost to themselves, theguardian.com (Sep 21, 2023)
- Bristol City Councils commitment to nature's recovery being tested!, avonwildlifetrust.org.uk (Sep 01, 2023)
- ‘A win for nature and those who love it’: the Dartmoor ruling – and why it matters, positive.news (Aug 04, 2023)
- Nature groups prepared to ‘mobilise’ 20m members over UK climate policy, theguardian.com (Jul 29, 2023)
- To understand the right’s climate backlash, look no further than its monstering of Natural England, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jul 20, 2023) — MPs and newspapers alike are attacking the public body charged with conserving the English countryside for doing just that
- High costs deterring legal challenges in England and Wales to protect environment, NGOs say, The Guardian (Jun 28, 2023)
- Endangered marsh fritillary butterfly makes a comeback in Lake District, The Guardian (Jun 26, 2023)
- Costa Rica restored its ravaged land to health. The rich UK has no excuse for such complete failure, George Monbiot, The Guardian (Apr 21, 2023)
- One of UK’s largest seagrass beds discovered off Cornwall, The Guardian (Apr 17, 2023)
- David Attenborough’s online Wild Isles isn’t too hard-hitting for TV – it doesn’t go far enough, Dave Goulson, The Guardian (Apr 10, 2023)
- The plan to create a ‘nature recovery site’ in every English county, positive.news (Mar 27, 2023)
- The People’s Plan For Nature has finally landed - seeking a “Union” of forces, to ensure nature is at the heart of all policy, The Daily Alternative (Mar 25, 2023)
- People’s Plan for Nature arrives, saveourwildisles.org.uk (Mar 23, 2023) — A world-first, a plan created for the people, by the people of the UK – a vision for the future of nature, and the actions we must all take to protect and renew it.
- Still time to save Our Wild Isles, say UK conservation charities, BBC News (Mar 13, 2023)
- The truth about Britain’s wildlife crisis is stark: the timid BBC must let David Attenborough tell it loud and clear, Geoffrey Lean, The Guardian (Mar 10, 2023)
2022
- Eight fun projects helping the UK boost biodiversity, Positive News (Dec 22, 2022)
- Mussel Farming Is Healing the UK’s Coastal Food Chain, reasonstobecheerful.world (Dec 22, 2022)
- What’s this unfamiliar feeling I have after the Cop15 meeting? It might just be hope, Craig Bennett, The Guardian (Dec 20, 2022)
- 81% of Britons believe nature is under threat and needs urgent action to protect it. We need a People's Plan For Nature, The Daily Alternative (Oct 11, 2022)
- Truss’s anti-environmentalism has awakened the sleeping green giant of British politics, Guy Shrubsole, guyshrubsole.substack.com (Sep 28, 2022)
- Belfast's Wildflower Alley was transformed from a dumping ground to a communal zone of biodiversity, The Daily Alternative (Sep 26, 2022)
- Five ways to help wildlife in heatwaves, The Conversation (Jul 18, 2022)
- Hedgehog conservation: how to make a garden nest box appealing – new research, The Conversation (Jul 04, 2022)
- These Scottish villagers bought a nature reserve - now they are fundraising to double its size, euronews.com (Jun 10, 2022)
- Britain’s first wetland ‘super reserve’ offers boost to nature-based solutions to climate change, The Conversation (Jun 07, 2022)
- Bee highways: how they work and why we need them, The Conversation (May 12, 2022) — Includes map of the bee highway
- God’s own gardens: why churchyards are some of our wildest nature sites, The Guardian (May 06, 2022)
- Bugs Matter survey finds that UK flying insects have declined by nearly 60% in less than 20 years, Buglife (May 05, 2022)
- Hedgehog highways: what are they and how to help build one, The Conversation (Mar 04, 2022)
- Cranes: why Britain’s tallest bird just had its best breeding year since the 1600s, The Conversation (Feb 03, 2022)
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| Cite as | Phil Green (2021–2025). "Biodiversity UK news". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |