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Two new mascots are helping bring to life the history and wildlife of a city centre urban watercourse.

• Updated: 28 March 2024

Second-largest rodent thriving in Essex

• Updated: 28 March 2024

A huge new wetland site has been created next to the Hamble Brook in Buckinghamshire.

• Updated: 27 March 2024

The recovery of rare, threatened and important habitats and species in English waters is another step closer from today (Friday 22 March 2024).

• Updated: 22 March 2024

Work on a project to restore wetland habitat opens up 55km of river for fish and improve community access at a Tees Valley country park will start this week.

• Updated: 5 March 2024

Devon’s Pebblebed Heaths National Nature Reserve to extended by nearly 90 hectares, the equivalent of 128 football pitches, to encompass a unique wetland

• Updated: 16 February 2024

Angler's £120 fine dwarfed cost of rod licence

• Updated: 2 February 2024

Marine Management Organisation (MMO) byelaw to protect valuable marine habitats and species in a further 13 English offshore marine protected areas (MPAs) will come into force on 22 March 2024.  

• Updated: 1 February 2024

One year on since the publication of the Environmental Improvement Plan, the government launches new measures to halt and reverse nature’s decline

• Updated: 31 January 2024

A Gloucester angler gave a false name and address when an Environment Agency fisheries patrol found he did not have a valid fishing licence.

• Updated: 25 January 2024

Anglers from South, Midlands and London skipped fees used to maintain fisheries

• Updated: 25 January 2024

Results confirm High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) has been found in elephant and fur seals on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.

• Updated: 11 January 2024

Rivers feeding the River Loddon restocked for healthy habitats.

• Updated: 18 December 2023

Fines and costs dwarf price of fishing licence

• Updated: 18 December 2023

Natural England will support the delivery of measures to accelerate nature recovery, and improve access to the natural world

• Updated: 29 November 2023

The Studland Bay Marine Partnership has been awarded £186,000 from the Marine Management Organisation’s Fisheries and Seafood Scheme to support the conservation of Studland Bay’s precious marine ecosystems.

• Updated: 28 November 2023

The Tees Tidelands project will reduce the risk of flooding, help nature recover and reconnect people with the River Tees estuary.

• Updated: 9 November 2023

Over 1,000 miles of the King Charles III England Coast Path completed as Ramsgate to Whitstable stretch is officially opened.

• Updated: 25 October 2023

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation is working with Cornwall Wildlife Trust and the British Army to improve sand dune wildlife at the Penhale Training Area.

• Updated: 25 October 2023

Site brings together 31 existing nature sites with more than 400 hectares of additional land.

• Updated: 19 October 2023