Devon Wildlife Trust urges South West MPs to back ambitious nature recovery targets

• Ahead of an expected announcement on farming policy review, nature groups are urging the new Prime Minister to maintain Environmental Land Management scheme (ELMs) funding now and increase…

Devon Wildlife Trust is asking their members, supporters and the wider public to defend nature by contacting MPs and local councillors – both online and in person – to voice concerns over new…

Devon Wildlife Trust has written to each of the county's Conservative Party Associations and its nine Conservative MPs calling on them to support demands that nature and the environment be at…

New farming policy stripped of ambition to aid nature recovery

The first significant announcement from Defra since the UK took centre stage at COP 26 does not give much cause for celebration says Harry Barton, CEO Devon Wildlife Trust

Environment, conservation, animal welfare and access charities challenge Government to set a State of Nature target to make the hopeful headlines come true.

Today’s announcement that a banned neonicotinoid will not be used on sugar beet is good news – but does not halt the risk to wildlife in future years.

The Government has bowed to pressure from the National Farmers Union and agreed to authorise the use of the highly damaging neonicotinoid thiamethoxam for the treatment of sugar beet seed in 2021…

The new year offers an opportunity for the first Environment Bill in over 20 years to do more for wildlife, and have clear targets to reverse nature's decline within a decade. You can ask…