With one in seven species in the UK now at risk of extinction and 58% of species in decline, The Wildlife Trusts have long called for ambitious new laws to allow nature to recover. Ensuring a…

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…

Buglife’s “Severn B-Lines” project, which will be run in Shropshire, is one of the first environmental projects awarded a grant from the government’s £80 million Green Recovery Challenge Fund.

Rt Hon Philip Dunne MP for Ludlow, has today published his Private Member’s Bill designed to tackle river pollution from untreated sewage and improve water quality.

The second and final phase of dredging at Newport Canal is taking place this month to protect rare aquatic plants.

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Shropshire Wildlife Trust welcome’s the commitment given by the Prime Minister to protect 30 percent of the UK’s land for biodiversity by 2030. However, the Government’s claim that 26% of land is…

Largest ever badger cull authorised this autumn – bringing the total shot to 35% of UK’s badger population.

The Local Nature Reserve known as Birch Road Pond, in Ellesmere, has been under water for the past two years, but water has receded enough for repairs to the broken boardwalk to be made and the…

Fears the badger cull will be expanded and vaccinated badgers will be shot despite Government commitment to move away from lethal control.
The Wildlife Trusts are deeply concerned that…