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Second-largest rodent thriving in Essex

• Updated: 28 March 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

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

• Updated: 14 September 2023

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

• Updated: 17 April 2023

Environment Agency funding sees eels, bullheads and brook lamprey back in England's rainforest.

• Updated: 30 January 2023

The Environment Agency helped fund Eythrope Wetland, transforming a meadow into home for 122 bird species, including teal, lapwing and ringed plover.

• Updated: 20 December 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

Some of Devon’s rarest plants are to be moved to new sites in the county as work continues on the Lower Otter Restoration Project (LORP).

• Updated: 18 March 2022

20,000 seagrass seed bags to help restore Solent seabed for people and nature

• Updated: 15 March 2022

New Plant Health requirements introduced to prevent the spread of the tree pathogen Phytophthora pluvialis in Cumbria and south-west England

• Updated: 20 January 2022

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

An internationally important lowland raised peat bog between England and Wales celebrates its 30th birthday as a National Nature Reserve (NNR).

• Updated: 10 September 2021

The natural environment along Bradford Beck has had a welcome boost now a three year river restoration project is complete.

• Updated: 21 June 2021

Natural England, in collaboration with Clinton Devon Estates, has announced today (Thursday 13 May), a new National Nature Reserve (NNR) for the vitally important East Devon Pebblebed Heaths near Exeter.

• Updated: 13 May 2021

All of Cotswold Water Park has been given Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) status.

• Updated: 8 January 2021

Legislation would make it illegal for larger businesses to use products unless they comply with local laws to protect natural areas.

• Updated: 25 August 2020

Sarah Flannigan and Jantiene T. Klein Roseboom van der Veer have been reappointed as Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Val Gooding, Ian Karet, Michael Lear and Derek Myers terms have been extended for six months.

• Updated: 28 July 2020

All garden centres reopening should put in place social distancing and safety measures.

• Updated: 13 May 2020