Climate crisis: Nature has the answers
Will Parsons, The Wildlife Trusts’ public affairs officer, reveals the role natural habitats play in tackling the climate crisis.
The climate crisis now regularly makes the headlines, and…
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Solving the climate crisis is impossible without looking after nature
This month the international conference on climate change, COP26, starts. For two weeks, the World’s leaders will huddle together to discuss once again how to tackle what is possibly the greatest…
Things you can do about climate change
There are simple and easy things that we can all do to reduce our carbon footprint and make a big difference to the natural world.
Government’s planning reforms must address the nature and climate crisis
New analysis of the Government’s White Paper, Planning for the Future, has revealed that, as they currently stand, the proposed reforms will increase the threat to nature in England and do little…
Tackle the climate emergency
We are in the middle of a climate and nature emergency, and the two are inextricably linked. Climate change is driving nature’s decline, and the loss of wildlife and wild places leaves us ill-equipped to reduce carbon emissions and adapt to change. One cannot be solved without the other.
Climate friendly gardening
There are plenty of ways you can take action against climate change in your own backyard or local greenspace.
Land and Climate Change
Well, it’s official. According to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), how we use our land is one of the most significant contributors to global warming –…
Climate Change & the Environment Act
With the peculiar weather we've been experiencing this spring, Harry Barton reflects on the effects of climate change on wildlife. How will it cope? And how could a strong Environment Act…
Devon charity’s vision for ‘wilder farm’ named as one of 12 new high-impact projects to help tackle UK’s climate crisis
A Devon farm has been unveiled as part of an ambitious national nature recovery project which aims to develop natural solutions to storing carbon and combating climate change.
The Labour Party's manifesto: nature and climate crises, an urgent challenge that must be faced?
After outlining their plans for nature's recovery, the Labour Party has now launched their official manifesto. In this blog, I review what's new, including a recognition that the nature…
Why I’m joining the Youth Strike 4 Climate
On Friday 20th September, students from around the World will be shunning their classrooms, textbooks and smart boards and taking to the streets to demand action on the climate emergency.
Climate action needs nature. Nature needs climate action. Neither will succeed if we don’t prepare for a changing world
The Wildlife Trusts’ COP26 report says it’s time to tackle the twin crises at speed
Devon Wildlife Trust says ‘Now is the time for bold action…so that nature and climate feed into…