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It will no longer be possible to keep primates as household pets in environments that fail to provide for their needs

• Updated: 5 March 2024

Encouraging population increase as 54 nests recorded

• Updated: 16 September 2023

UK government awards nearly £40 million to more than 80 projects through the Darwin Initiative and Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund

• Updated: 29 April 2023

Natural England notify 3,100-hectare area of lowland heath in west Cornwall a Special Site of Scientific Interest (SSSI).

• Updated: 7 October 2022

Cornwall has seen 26 green projects - all aimed at tackling declining biodiversity and restoring its natural environment - delivered since the G7 conference.

• Updated: 27 June 2022

Government seeking views on a ban of the retail sale of peat in horticulture by end of this Parliament

• Updated: 18 December 2021

Back from the Brink initiative sees Breckland-based Shifting Sands project use surprising methods and rabbits to bring about record numbers of rare species.

• Updated: 24 September 2021

Rare wildflowers, wildlife and medieval earthworks help Johnson’s Meadows win protected status.

• Updated: 29 July 2021

A cluster of land along the River Dearne and its tributary the River Dove, near Barnsley, has been officially recognised as a Site of Special Scientific Interest by Natural England.

• Updated: 13 May 2021

Greener building and conserving wildlife goes hand in hand in the North East as a new approach to sustainable development is launched.

• Updated: 17 March 2021

Defra launches three-week consultation to determine details of the new interim licensing regime ahead of 2021 release of gamebirds on and around protected sites.

• Updated: 23 February 2021

Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire to benefit from expansion to National Nature Reserve.

• Updated: 8 December 2020

A Natural England licensing scheme is now underway in Norfolk and Suffolk which will help better conserve the UK’s threatened population of great crested newts.

• Updated: 2 October 2020

The Environment Agency have conducted a crayfish rescue as part of their regular gravel removal works on the River Kent in Kendal to reduce flood risk to the town

• Updated: 8 September 2020

Scheme to protect great crested newts expands across the country.

• Updated: 25 February 2020

Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers launches public survey as part of planned review of general licences to manage wild birds in England.

• Updated: 12 September 2019

Thursley National Nature Reserve in Surrey recognised as an excellent site for dragonflies and damselflies.

• Updated: 22 August 2019

Natural England’s reply to requests received from Defra for advice on general licences.

• Updated: 11 July 2019

Kent's first District Level Licensing scheme to help protected Great Crested Newts during development.

• Updated: 25 June 2019

The Heritage Lottery Fund have awarded £3.8 million for a project led by Natural England to save bats and protect churches

• Updated: 12 October 2018