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Keeping taps on and boosting wildlife: the race to protect the Lake District’s water

Award-winning partnership is regenerating natural habitats in attempt to secure water supply as climate crisis worsens

The Guardian - UK

Tory plans to rip up river pollution rules in tatters after two defeats in Lords

Labour’s move to oppose erosion of EU-derived laws welcomed by environmental groups

The Guardian - UK

Labour to oppose ‘reckless’ Tory plans to rip up EU pollution laws

Party announces it will vote against Conservative bid to scrap river nutrient neutrality rules for housebuilders

The Guardian - UK

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Ministers ignored Natural England’s advice on plans to rip up pollution laws

Correspondence shows nature watchdog had recommended that housebuilders pay for pollution

The Guardian - UK

Beavers are back – but scientists fear Defra’s silence on protection deal

Return to the wild will boost biodiversity, but government accused of backing out of scheme

The Guardian - UK

Why the UK government is relaxing rules for river pollution

The UK government has announced plans to enable the delivery of 100,000 new homes by 2030 that are currently being held up by a controversial EU law designed to protect water bodies from pollution.

The Conversation

Scrapping housebuilder pollution rules is a regression, watchdog tells Coffey

Office for Environmental Protection chair tells ministers plan will degrade England’s rivers and demands that they explain it to MPs

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Scrapping housebuilder water pollution rules in England to cost taxpayer £140m

Under Lords amendment, developers will no longer have to offset nutrient pollution from new homes’ sewage

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gove to tear up English water pollution rules despite sewage scandal

MICHAEL Gove is set to tear up environmental regulations protecting English rivers in the name of boosting housebuilding.

The National (Scotland)

‘Citizen scientists make a vital difference’: the locals who proved the River Wye was polluted

Volunteers testing the water, supported by university research, have forced admission about damaging intensive chicken farms

The Guardian - UK

‘An utter disgrace’: 90% of England’s most precious river habitats blighted by raw sewage and farming pollution

Observer investigation reveals the shocking state of the country’s protected freshwater sites of special scientific interest

The Guardian - UK

Scheme to protect hen harriers in England a waste of money, says wildlife group

Wild Justice says government initiative to relocate broods away from grouse moors ‘rewards past crimes’ of illegal killing

The Guardian - UK

To understand the right’s climate backlash, look no further than its monstering of Natural England

MPs and newspapers alike are attacking the public body charged with conserving the English countryside for doing just that, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Prince William to expand Duchy of Cornwall’s temperate rainforest

Duchy hopes to at least double size of Wistman’s Wood, a 3 hectare fragment of ancient woodland, by 2040

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Royal estate linked to many deaths and disappearances of protected birds

Cases linked to king’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk include alleged poisoning and shooting of some of UK’s rarest birds of prey

The Guardian - UK

Natural England designates Cornish moorland a nature conservation area

There were shouts of ‘Shame on you!’ at the meeting in St Ives, as critics say decision is ‘disastrous’ for farmers

The Independent UK

Teaching a talented dog newt tricks

Springer spaniel Freya first made headlines in 2018 when her skills were deployed to sniff out great crested newts for Wessex Water.

Chronicle Live

Blow as environmental schemes around North East are vandalised

Schemes to restore rare wetland habitats have been attacked at Jarrow and Sunderland

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The Guardian - UK

Illegal reintroductions of rare butterflies to UK ‘a risk to other species’

Conservation scientists warn releases of rare or extinct species may spread diseases and harm attempts to save other butterflies

The Guardian - UK

Ministers warned England set to miss wildlife and biodiversity targets

Exclusive: Natural England chair Tony Juniper says government must work quickly to reconcile farming and nature

Daily Mirror

Fury at fresh badger slaughter as cull widened to stop population bouncing back

Campaigners reacted angrily to the issuing of "supplementary licences" authorising a new killing programme across swathes of the English countryside

Wales Online

River Wye health status downgraded due to farming pollution

The Wye has been reclassified from 'unfavourable-improving' to 'unfavourable-declining' by Natural England

Evening Standard

Natural England downgrades River Wye after wildlife decline

The river’s previous status of ‘unfavourable-recovering’ has been updated to ‘unfavourable-declining’

The Guardian - UK

River Wye health status downgraded by Natural England after wildlife review

River’s condition said to be declining as Wildlife Trusts calls for action from government on farming pollution

Liverpool Echo

Claims people ripping up 'beautiful' flowers in town's 'culture war'

Others said the claims were "absolute rubbish"

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