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Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
Guidance on what BNG is and how it affects land managers, developers and local planning authorities.
What you need to do as a developer to meet biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements.
A 42-year-old man was caught red-handed by Environment Agency officers when he attempted to use a cast net without permission on a canal in South Yorkshire.
How developers can use habitat creation or enhancements to count towards their biodiversity net gain (BNG).
New developments in Greater Manchester are delivering on housing and nature targets as part of the Government’s Biodiversity Net Gain policy.
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