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Why Britain's loudest bird is booming after decades of decline

The Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris) is a reclusive bird belonging to the heron family. Close to the size of a chicken, bitterns are a mix of golden-brown mottled with delicate black and tan. With long, green legs and large feet, these birds are adapted for skulking through reedbeds – the…

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Tory MPs and farmers in clash with Natural England over Dartmoor sheep

Move to stop overgrazing harming bird habitats would ‘destroy ancient tradition’ and harm business, say MPs

The Guardian - UK

50 beavers living secretly on the Bristol Avon, stunned researchers discover

Until 2020, they were thought to have been extinct for almost 500 years

Bristol Post

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Ministers ‘ignored’ own adviser over weak targets for restoring English nature

Government accused of hypocrisy for pushing global target but not following Natural England’s advice at home

The Guardian - UK

Plantwatch: rare species flourish in Swanscombe wasteland

Area in Kent has more threatened species than any other brownfield site in UK – but its future is at risk

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a special place’: Somerset Levels star in new David Attenborough series

Wild Isles reveals places such as Ham Hall RSPB reserve are as rich and diverse an ecosystem as Serengeti, says BBC

The Guardian - UK

Former Tory minister who tried to sell off forests is given Natural England role

Exclusive: Appointment of Dame Caroline Spelman to nature watchdog’s board sparks cronyism allegations

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England’s new housing supply likely to fall to lowest level in decades, study says

Home Builders Federation warns planning policy changes will result in government meeting less than half its annual target

The Guardian - UK

Charles co-writes Ladybird Book of Climate Change

The King is a life-long champion of the environment and the new children’s book is a re-writing of his 2017 climate change book aimed at adults.

The Independent UK

Families battle to save 'paradise' caravan spot from closure after being banned for more than a year

They have been unable to access their caravans overnight for over a year

Wales Online

Families banned from 'paradise' beauty spot loved by generations

"I'm devastated that it's gone on for this long. It should never have come to this."

Liverpool Echo

25-foot steel goat installed in remote Northumberland countryside

The sculpture by father-and-daughter team Stephen Lunn and Ashlee Donaldson is part of the Revitalising Redesdale scheme

Chronicle Live

Thérèse Coffey admits UK can’t achieve air pollution target advised by experts

Environment secretary sets lower 10-year objective for cleaner air but researchers say their goal is reachable with stronger action

The Guardian - UK

Developers ‘clearing wildlife habitats without approval to win planning permission’

Exclusive: ‘It’s hideous in a biodiversity crisis, but these are the forces we’re up against,’ say householders

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Dartmoor landowner who won wild camping ban may be putting rare beetle at risk

Exclusive: Alexander Darwall, who said he brought case to improve conservation, is releasing pheasants near protected woodland

Bristol Post

Boost for Stoke Park wildlife as major restoration project launched

Three overgrown ponds will soon become 'thriving oases for wildlife' under new plans

Evening Standard

London Resort boss quits as project scaled back over nature concerns

Former Millennium Dome chief PY Gerbeau steps down from his full time role from the troubled project

Liverpool Echo

Disabled woman doesn't 'feel safe' walking on beach at centre of 'civil war'

Charlotte Smith has long had ties to Hoylake beach volunteering to help her dad with the RNLI in the 1980s

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Lizard Downs in Cornwall protected for public use after 140 years

Open Spaces Society secures re-registration of 116 hectares of ‘splendid’ moorland’ for common use

Liverpool Echo

Memorial bench to be repaired over 'insensitive' plaque

The plaque was not authorised and the council said they told the person who paid for the memorial bench it will be repaired

Liverpool Echo

Bitter beach row erupts as tense meeting sees storm outs, accusations and mud-slinging

The Hoylake Beach saga came to a fiery head at a crunch meeting last night

Bristol Post

Bristol's Brislington Meadows not special enough to save from housing development says Natural England

Avon Wildlife Trust and Natural England disagree on the importance of the leftover fields in South Bristol

Liverpool Echo

Thousands have their say on controversial beach row that split town

The council will now review two options which would see parts of the beach kept clear before going back to the public

The Guardian - UK

Hen harriers to be bred in captivity and released on to Salisbury Plain

Raptor has not bred in southern England for decades – with only breeding populations found on northern moorlands

Chronicle Live

Clanger-like shrew found in Sunderland is first ever seen in UK

The Great White-toothed shrew could be the first new mammal species in the UK for almost a century

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