Sustain and Communities Against Factory Farming warned that the UK poultry growth plan deepens reliance on imported soy that constitutes 18 per cent of animal feed and is linked to Amazon deforestation.
The Big Butterfly Count 2026 runs from 17 July to 9 August, encouraging 15-minute observations in sunny spots to record butterflies and day-flying moths.
Tittesworth Water, managed by Severn Trent, became the largest UK reservoir to achieve The Wildlife Trusts' Biodiversity Benchmark on 16 July 2026.
UK business leaders, government officials, scientists and conservation experts convened in Edinburgh for Biodiversity + Business Live to address nature loss as both strategic risk and commercial opportunity.
Wild brown trout in Shetland's Loch of Cliff have grown from around 1lb to as much as 20lb by foraging on feed leaking from Cooke Aquaculture's salmon cages.
The General Synod rejected a motion requiring nature protection on 30 per cent of Church Commissioners' land by 2030.
Defra's 30by30 plan shows 32 per cent of England already meets or could meet criteria for nature protection through a tiered Bronze, Silver and Gold system.
The UK dotterel population has fallen 89 percent since the 1987-88 survey, with the 2025 count estimating only 112 breeding males largely restricted to the eastern and northern Scottish Highlands.
The Mor Nature programme, the UK's largest seagrass restoration project, has launched in Cornwall aiming to restore 10 hectares in Falmouth Bay and revive native oyster populations.
