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‘Amazing’ habitat for wildlife: work starts on vast wetland restoration scheme

Hundreds of acres of wetland being recreated in the Fens alongside ‘wet farming’ demonstration fields.

Evening Standard · Oct 4

Call for nature ‘right next to where people live’ amid urban green space push

Conservationists say areas behind industrial estates and houses could be transformed into spaces for wildlife and people.

Evening Standard · Sep 27

Innovative scheme to rewet peat providing protection from fire and flooding

The National Trust’s restoration work on Holcombe Moor, north of Manchester, also stores carbon and boosts wildlife.

Evening Standard · Aug 30

Beavers, pigs and ponies to rewild landscape in first Government-backed scheme

Boothby Wildland, the first ‘landscape recovery’ scheme supported by the Government, aims to be an ‘exemplar’ in using private finance to help nature.

Evening Standard · Oct 12, 2025

How beavers could become key to preventing droughts

River restoration work maintained lush vegetation and wetlands at a National Trust site in the South West

The Independent UK · Jul 4, 2025

Return of white storks ’emblem’ for nature recovery, conservationists say

A project to reintroduce the metre-tall birds as a breeding species to England has created wild colonies producing dozens of chicks each year.

The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2025

Cutting nature-friendly farming budget would be ‘devastating’, Government warned

Environmental and farming groups have reacted with dismay to reports that funding for sustainable agriculture will be cut in the spending review.

Evening Standard · May 28, 2025

‘Scale is so important’ – the fight to revive Britain’s vanishing rainforests

Conservationists are battling to secure the future of the ‘jewel in the crown’ of British habitats as climate change looms.

The Independent UK · May 4, 2025

Farmers warn of impact on wildlife of closure of nature-friendly farming scheme

People who had been planning to implement measures under the sustainable farming incentive now say they cannot afford to.

Evening Standard · Apr 15, 2025

Climate change threatens Valentine’s Day gift of chocolates, charity warns

Erratic weather and rising temperatures in key cocoa-growing countries have pushed up global prices and left farmers with an uncertain future.

Evening Standard · Feb 12, 2025