A new Tree Planting Taskforce has been launched today to oversee the planting of millions of trees across the UK. In this post, the Environment blog team will highlight what this means, as well as some other ways we’re celebrating the week.
Emma Magee introduces us to the East Dartmoor National Nature Reserve, where the Wild Water project is finding natural solutions for reducing flood risk.
Ruth Davis is the UK’s first-ever Special Representative for Nature. In this post, she shares her reflections on the role the UK government has played at COP29 and why we need to put nature at the heart of our discussions on climate change.
Today, we have announced the 20 projects that have been successful in the first round of funding of our Ocean Community Empowerment and Nature Grant Programme (also referred to as OCEAN). Read this post to find out more.
To mark the COP29 conference, the Defra Environment blog team will share nature stories throughout the week, starting with a post about the National Education Nature Park.
In this post, Rachel Fisher, Deputy Director for the Land Use policy team at Defra, shares her reflections on Biodiversity Net Gain 9 months after the policy went live for major developments.
The first Local Nature Recovery Strategy has been published. Find out why that's important for local and national biodiversity.
In this post, Ciaran Ambler, Head of Biodiversity Finance and Philanthropy in Defra's Green Finance team, shares the recently launched Biodiversity Standard and how you can share your views to ensure this standard works for the whole sector.
Tom tells us how ocean health was put front and centre at a recent meeting of Commonwealth leaders.
This week the UN Biodiversity Summit (CBD COP16) is taking place in Colombia. In this post, Danielle shares what the UK has announced at the conference to support ambition for nature recovery.