A new report by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the Global Wetland Outlook 2025: Valuing, conserving, restoring and financing wetlands (GWO 2025), warns that without urgent action, one fifth of the world’s remaining wetlands could vanish by 2050.

The government is proposing to extend the ban on destructive bottom trawling in vulnerable areas of English seas - the fishing method involves dragging large nets along the sea floor.

MPs on the cross-party House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) are calling on the Government to ban damaging activities such as bottom trawling in certain protected areas of England’s waters, in a report published today.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has awardeda contract for Ecosystem Surveys Vegetation and Landscape in England with an estimated value of £1.284 million.

Northumberland National Park Authority has gone out to tender with a contract for a habitat survey of the Hadrian's Wall wetlands landscape recovery project.

The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have awarded a £270,000 contract to compensate for the loss of habitat for Great Crested Newts (GCN).

Measures to unblock much-needed infrastructure projects whilst supporting nature recovery at scale will be included in proposals for the Planning and Infrastructure Bill this year, the Government has announced as part its Plan for Change.

The Environment Agency has announced that new rules to protect salmon and other fish in the River Camel catchment in Cornwall have come into force - salmon caught in the River Camel catchment must be returned to the water with the least possible injury.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the reintroduction of Red Kites to the North East, a project, Northumbrian Water is proud to have been part of.

Natural England has published a major new report warning that urgent action is needed now to restore nature and place it at the heart of decision making processes.