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Britain’s natural environment is depleted and, despite nascent government schemes to manage the land differently, struggling to recover from centuries of destruction – plus more recent threats like climate change. What if the biggest obstacles to its recovery are the people we have entrusted to look after it?

Mandatory reports should be published on how taxpayers’ money is spent on environmental stewardship, says campaigner

Badger cull U-turn and lack of promises on factory farming, water pollution and wildlife support all prompt questions

The pledges and actions of the new UK government on land access, nature and the environment

After the election, Labour must end the attacks on a watchdog simply trying to protect what little wildlife we have left, says campaigner and author Guy Shrubsole

Authorities asked to step in to protect Black-a-Tor Copse, an ancient temperate rainforest in Devon at risk from overgrazing

Conservationists say government strategy to recover Britain’s degraded temperate rainforest is a good start but want a target to double the area by 2050

William became largest private landholder in the national park when he inherited Duchy of Cornwall