World Wetlands Day 2024: Wetlands and wellbeing
In this post, Jordan tells us about the importance of wetlands and their wellbeing benefits.
Get to know Rebecca Pow, Minister for Nature
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.
Connecting businesses with nature projects
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 …
New actions to support seabirds, wildlife and Net Zero
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Mike Dowell, Posted on:
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Biodiversity net gain, Climate change, Marine, Nature, Peat, Protected Landscapes
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 …
The Environmental Improvement Plan: Our progress one year on
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Rob Reid, Posted on:
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Access and engagement, Air quality, Biosecurity, Chemicals and pesticides, Climate change, Environmental Improvement Plan, Nature, Resources and waste, Water
Read about the actions Defra has taken since 31 January 2023, from supporting England's wildlife to cleaning up our water.
Welcome to the new Environment blog
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, …
Bringing more environment topics to the blog
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 …
The Statutory Biodiversity Metric: what it means for biodiversity net gain and biodiversity measurement
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Mike Burke, Natural England Programme Director – Sustainable Development, Posted on:
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Biodiversity net gain, Land use
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.
Biodiversity Net Gain - what are the exemptions?
In this blog, we provide more details on which developments are exempt from BNG. The list of exemptions is narrow and focused, keeping the policy ambitious, whilst being proportionate and deliverable for developers and local planning authorities.
BNG launch date confirmed
We are pleased to confirm that biodiversity net gain will go live on 12 February 2024. From this date major development (unless otherwise exempt) will have to deliver net gains for biodiversity leading to positive outcomes for nature, better places for local communities and more consistent and transparent requirements for developers.