Environment

Wildlife groups have urged the Government to introduce a legally binding target to halt the decline of habitats and species by 2030 at the latest.

A record number of farmers, landowners and gamekeepers took part in the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Big Farmland Bird Count.

Farmers have already started planting young saplings as part of the National Trust’s commitment to establishing 20 million new trees by 2030.

First Milk has become the latest processor to announce ambitious sustainability plans, pledging to be net zero by 2040.

The Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) has called on Government to establish an Agroecology Development Bank to kickstart a ‘rural transformation’.

New rules to protect the Amazon and other rainforests are set to hit UK farmers with added costs and paperwork.

According to a well known former Farmers Guardian journalist who spent more than 40 years with the title, one of the biggest changes in UK farming from the 1970s onwards was the rise of the environmental agenda and how it influenced policy. 

A leading mental health farming charity in Wales has said controversial new regulations which introduce closed periods for slurry spreading are ‘likely to cause stress’ for farmers.

Cumbrian farmers have highlighted a ‘catalogue of errors’ by the Environment Agency (EA) and Rivers Trust in their approaches to water management and flooding.

Farm groups have slammed a Defra plan to establish a rewilding forum, branding it an idea straight out of the Mad Hatters tea party.