...Examples of green action throughout the year include environmental volunteering such as litter picking and planting pollinator-friendly flowers, fundraising to maintain and enhance green spaces, and campaigning for the zero...
...is now moving decisively to introduce tough legislation to ban the trade in ivory in the UK. The narrowly defined exemptions are pragmatic. The ban will ensure there is no...
...site. Sites of Special Scientific Interest (‘SSSIs’) are the best examples of natural environment in the United Kingdom, selected because of specific environmental features, which can include flora, fauna and...
...network and the differing challenges they face in delivering a service. This means every water company bears different costs and therefore charges different prices for the services they provide. Ofwat,...
...ensure CPO deployments until 2020, Defra is providing £450,000 of funding. The Environment Secretary was interviewed for the piece and is quoted as having said: We do it because we...
...local residents. To be clear, these proposals have been developed to both protect the environment and for reasons of public safety. When developing the proposals, Natural England gathered information from...
...Service Animals Bill will remove a section of the current law of self-defence, often used by those who harm service animals. This change, coupled with the government’s plans to increase...
...England’s announcement of the notification of two Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) because of rare fungi. This doubles the number of sites chosen for designations specifically for their fungi....
...owned and managed by Natural England. It is a designated Special Protection Area and Special Area of Conservation and home to number of protected birds and wildlife. The site is...
...Salisbury ambulance station is set to reopen, having been decontaminated following a nerve agent attack earlier this year. A Defra spokesperson said: As part of our ongoing clean-up operations in...