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

• Updated: 19 October 2023

Derby-based property developer ordered to pay £14,435.17 for breaching conditions of an European Protected Species Bat Mitigation Licence.

• Updated: 2 October 2023

Options considered for refurbishment of the coastal frontage between St Helens and Bembridge - part of wider project to reduce risk of flooding and coastal erosion

• Updated: 18 September 2023

South East homes to butterflies and bees among creatures getting share of £14.5m support fund to fight extinction

• Updated: 14 September 2023

South coast homes to butterflies and bees among creatures getting share of £14.5m support fund to fight extinction

• Updated: 14 September 2023

63 projects awarded share of £14.5 million to support species recovery across England

• Updated: 14 September 2023

During the Global Environment Facility assembly in Canada, the UK announced it would stand among the first countries to contribute to the newly launched Global Biodiversity Framework Fund.

• Updated: 25 August 2023

Curlews, short-snouted seahorses and natterjack toads set to be benefit as six nature recovery projects are launched.

• Updated: 20 July 2023

Bees' Needs Week launches for 2023, encouraging everyone to protect pollinators

• Updated: 10 July 2023

Judge - Thames Water "deliberately misled" the Environment Agency in and around pollution of rivers in Sussex and Surrey in which several thousand fish died.

• Updated: 4 July 2023

Government launches new multi-million pound fund to create and restore wildlife-rich habitats.

• Updated: 30 June 2023

South East fisheries officers are responding to hundreds of fish in distress as warmer temperatures raise risk of fish dying and algal blooms in watercourses.

• Updated: 23 June 2023

Dozens of angling clubs and fishery projects boosted by cash grants.

• Updated: 6 June 2023

Written by Angela Gall from Natural England and illustrated by Sarah Gledhill, the children's book about a unique fish's journey comes out on 8 June 2023.

• Updated: 1 June 2023

Fisheries enforcement officers clamp down on illegal angling to protect and sustain fish stocks. Illegal fishing cost London and Kent anglers £539

• Updated: 23 May 2023

Hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, killer whale and sperm whale set to be protected under Ivory Act extension

• Updated: 23 May 2023

Work has been completed at Costessey Fish Farm which will benefit the nationally scarce Marsh Carpet moth and the endangered Black Poplar tree.

• Updated: 10 May 2023

Darwin Plus Strategic initiative opens for the first time, supporting ambitious, transformative projects to tackle biodiversity loss in the UK Overseas Territories

• Updated: 29 April 2023

The Lower Otter Restoration Project has planted over 23,000 native trees.

• Updated: 17 April 2023

Natural England will undertake a survey of Morecambe Bay, the Duddon Estuary and Lune Estuary  from 5-10 April 2023

• Updated: 4 April 2023