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Get ready for new Biodiversity Net Gain legislation

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Biodiversity Net Gain, Biodiversity Net Gain – Hints and Tips, Development, Environment Act, Environmental Improvement Plan, Natural Capital, Natural England
A wildflower meadow at the Iford Biodiversity Project, East Sussex

The introduction of biodiversity net gain (BNG) today (12 February 2024) will see the biggest change to planning regulations in decades. This new law as part of the government’s Environment Act will make sure wildlife habitats are left in a …

Wetland restoration: for people and planet

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Biodiversity, Climate change, Environment Act, Environmental Improvement Plan, Green Infrastructure, Landscapes, Mental health and wellbeing, National Nature Reserve, Natural England, Nature Recovery Network, Protected sites and species, Species recovery, Wildlife
Image shows a common redshank bird standing within a grassy patch with white native flowers growing around it.

By Craig Ralston, Reserve Manager, Natural England World Wetlands Day, an annual awareness day, marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971. The adoption took place in the Iranian city of Ramsar, on …

Environmental Improvement Plan one year on: Driving Nature recovery on land and sea

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Biodiversity, Environment Act, Environmental Improvement Plan, Landscapes, Marine environment, Natural England, Nature Recovery Network, Protected sites and species, Species recovery, Wildlife
Puffin, atlantic puffin, Scientific name: Fratercula arctica with a beak full of sand eels. Perched on a lichen covered rock. Blue sky background. Facing left. Horizontal

By Alan Law, Deputy Chief Executive, Natural England This time last year, Defra’s Secretary of State launched the Environmental Improvement Plan to an audience of nature conservation bodies and the media in the nature rich setting of Camley Street Natural …

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