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Puppy smuggling bill (Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill) receives Royal Assent.
New plan sets course for cleaner rivers and air, as well as more nature and wildlife in England
Learn how Salts Wood, a woodland creation site in Kent, benefits the local community and wildlife.
Learn about Brook Farm, an England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) funded woodland creation project in Herefordshire.
Learn how Hilley Farm in Shropshire converted marginal land into woodland and the varied benefits it has provided.
• For first time UK government and all our Overseas Territories unite behind a joint ambitious and actionable biodiversity strategy
21 apprentices have become the first to graduate from the UK's pioneering degree-level forestry programme.
Read how funding from the Woodland Creation Planning Grant and England Woodland Creation Offer helped to create woodland in Cumbria.
392 bathing waters in England are rated ‘Excellent’ or ‘Good’, demonstrating the impact of designation, regulation and partnership working
UK accelerates global leadership on nature at COP30
Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds delivered a keynote speech at the 2025 CLA Rural Business Conference
Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds delivered a keynote speech at the 2025 Food and Drink Federation Investment Summit 2025
EA warns of ongoing river flooding risk despite reduced weather warnings
Environment Agency urges water companies to speed up fixing of leaks
New law will ban the supply and sale of wet wipes containing plastic in England
New report shows total quantity of antibiotics sold for livestock remains at the lowest level to date.
Read how Natural England are monitoring and managing significant browsing pressure from deer at Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve (NNR) in West Sussex.
Minister Hardy answers an Urgent Question on waste crime.
Record dry spring and summer heatwaves mean that without winter rain there will be drought next year with impacts on nature, agriculture and navigation
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