Biodiversity Net Gain becomes mandatory for major developments today, but why does this matter? Rachel Fisher, Defra’s Deputy Director for Land Use, outlines the benefits of the policy.
The Green Recovery Challenge Fund was an £80 million fund developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, designed to help nature recovery and conservation whilst creating and sustaining jobs. In this blog post, we'll delve into the incredible achievements this …
In this post, Jordan tells us about the importance of wetlands and their wellbeing benefits.
Rebecca Pow is the Under-Secretary of State for Nature at Defra. In this post, you can read about why she is so passionate about the natural world and farming.
Projects for Nature is a pioneering new online platform that connects businesses and other donors with 23 nature recovery projects across England (all of which have been screened by experts). I’m Justin, the nature lead for The Council for Sustainable …
Today, one year exactly since the publication of the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP), we are taking further actions to halt and reverse the decline of nature in our country. Firstly, to protect an important forage fish for a range of …
Read about the actions Defra has taken since 31 January 2023, from supporting England's wildlife to cleaning up our water.
Welcome. This is the first post on our new Defra Environment blog. We’ve expanded the previous Land Use blog so that we can showcase a greater range of stories about the environment. From now on, we’ll cover topics like nature, …
On 31 January, the one-year anniversary of the Environmental Improvement Plan, we will permanently expand this Land Use blog into an Environment blog. That means we’ll change from defralanduse.blog.gov.uk to defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk. The new Environment blog will showcase the breadth of …
This guest blog from Mike Burke, Natural England's Programme Director for Sustainable Development, talks through the development of the metric and what it means for BNG, alongside the implications for biodiversity measurement globally.