The Green Alliance has published Greener Britain: Practical proposals for party manifestos from the environment and conservation sector. Environmental policy-making has been challenging in the last few years. As a country, we have made significant gains in some important areas,…

The Government has been given a ‘red card’ for its efforts to reduce health-damaging air pollution, protect biodiversity and prevent flooding in a scorecard assessment of its green policies during this Parliament produced by the Environmental Audit Committee. The report…

Richard Green Ecology has obtained the first dormouse mitigation annex licence issued under Natural England’s recently introduced new system of European protected species licence application. The licence was granted for work to a hedge along the Exeter Airport access road,…

Swallows are often found nesting in barns proposed for conversion and as a species of conservation concern, should have alternative nest sites provided if existing sites are to be lost. Swallows prefer to nest in covered areas, as opposed to…

This study shows that small-scale culling changes badgers’ behaviour in ways that risk increasing TB transmission among badgers and exacerbating cattle TB incidence rather than reducing it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27770272 http://www.pnas.org/content/111/25/9193

Following BCT’s consultation requesting feedback about the 2nd edition of Bat Surveys Good Practice Guidelines, which closed at the end of summer 2013, they are aiming to publish a 3rd edition in winter 2014/2015. Click Here

Environmental Audit Committee report calls for a change in the law to control invasive species like ‘killer shrimp’ and Asian Hornet. It says the Government must implement new legal powers for tackling invasive plants and animals. Click Here

The Order makes it an offence to sell, offer or expose for sale, or possess or transport for the purposes of sale, non-native species that are listed in Schedule 9 to the WCA and are specified for the purposes of…

For the first time ever, over 3,500 maps showing the distribution, range change and abundance for over 500 species of bird that have been recorded in Britain and Ireland since 1968 are freely available online.

The first ever national inventory of wildlife-rich brownfield habitat has been launched on a new interactive website in partnership with Natural England, Buglife, the Invertebrate Conservation Trust and Defra. The inventory distinguishes priority Open Mosaic Habitat (OMH) on Previously Developed…