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Second-largest rodent thriving in Essex

• Updated: 28 March 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

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

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

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

• Updated: 23 May 2023

The Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill has been passed by the House of Commons.

• Updated: 17 March 2023

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

The Environment Agency worked with the Norwich Bat Group to install a wildlife receiver station at Benacre Pumping Station.

• Updated: 5 November 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

To mark Landscapes for Life Week, the partners behind the UK’s first super National Nature Reserve (NNR) have agreed a 20-year vision for one of Britain’s most biodiverse landscapes.

• Updated: 22 September 2021

Consultation launched to seek views on the cautious release and management of beavers into the wild

• Updated: 25 August 2021

A partnership project benefiting a range of wildlife has been completed on the River Stour, near Bures.

• Updated: 26 February 2021

A hundred water voles move into Shropshire.

• Updated: 17 September 2020

Defra to consult on the management of beavers in the wild and national approach for any further releases later this year.

• Updated: 6 August 2020

A natural flood management scheme in Essex has seen its "work force" double after the birth of two healthy kits.

• Updated: 2 July 2020

Ecologists found themselves a little adrift when trying to detect any signs of the elusive water vole living near the A5 – until they came up with an innovative idea.

• Updated: 10 March 2020

The government has confirmed the implementation date of the Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019.

• Updated: 1 March 2019

Letter from Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to Lynx UK Trust about lynx reintroduction in Kielder Forest, Northumberland.

• Updated: 4 December 2018

For badgers living in undergrowth near the M6 in Coventry it was a case of location, location, location when we started work on a major motorway upgrade.

• Updated: 27 November 2018