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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