Exclusive: Report finds Natural England has created no new SSSIs, which protect areas from development, since 2023

To protect Middlewick Ranges, a nationally important wildlife site, by funding urgent legal action to secure statutory protection as a SSSI.

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Draft proposals likely to ‘embed risk and inequality’, campaigners and urban planners say

More than 300 brown hairstreak butterfly eggs discovered near Llandeilo this winter after decade of decline Record numbers of eggs of the rare brown hairstreak butterfly have been found in south-west Wales after landowners stopped flailing hedges every year. The butterfly lays its eggs on blackthorn every summer. But when land managers and farmers mechanically cut hedges every autumn, thousands of the eggs are unknowingly destroyed. Continue reading...

Rest of UK has resisted calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds

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Exclusive: Homes are heating up as summers get hotter but least well-off are shouldering greatest risk, study finds

Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog

Chatsworth Homes Ltd has been fined £20,000 after not completing the landscaping for a housing development in Badwell Ash.

It’s hard to say if the president truly knows what he’s doing. But there is a precedent for the US causing short-term chaos and reaping long-term gain, says economist James Meadway

Samuel Rowe, who was returning from allotment, seeking to overturn caution for possession of offensive weapon

The Chancellor was facing questions on Government amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill designed to strengthen environmental protections.

Study finds that only 9.5% of fungal biodiversity hotspots fell within existing protected areas