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- ‘Ben Goldsmith, joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss nature restoration in his home country of England’ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
- ‘This new Buy an Acre project will enable EcoMinga to expand the Olivier Currat Reserve by an additional 485 hectares (1,198 acres)’ www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2025/08...
- “Looking at the woodlands of Scotland and northern England, I know it would do extremely well here.” www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/lyn...
- “Rewilding is broadening our knowledge of nature in Britain, and throwing in some surprises along the way.” www.positive.news/society/weav...
- ‘Rare species have returned to areas they have not been seen in for generations.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- ‘We found increased exposure to extreme heat has reduced bird populations in tropical regions by 25–38% since 1950.’ theconversation.com/70-years-of-...
- Worst bleaching on record for Western Australian coral reefs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- “One way we can increase the number of climate winners is by managing habitats positively so that threatened species can benefit as well as widespread mobile species.” butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...
- ‘Parts of Spain and Portugal likely to bear brunt of heat, while drought conditions sweep North America’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- ‘Would You Like To See More White Storks In London?’ londonist.com/london/great...
- “Native tree seeds will be collected by volunteers, prepared for sowing, then dispersed by drones over areas of ground burnt by a wildfire last year.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
- ‘My Farm Trees is a digital platform that connects seed producers like Kamdem with farmers, seed collectors, and scientists.’ www.fairplanet.org/story/can-an...
- Released wildcats thriving in the Scottish Highlands rewildingeurope.com/news/release...
- “Field species have declined. Plants are disappearing. We are worried our children will not see them.” www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2025/08...
- “Ultimately, we all want the same thing: to see TB eliminated so that farmers, their livestock, and wildlife, can all thrive.” www.zsl.org/news-and-eve...
- Italy approves nearly $700 million in new subsidies for EVs www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
- ‘A young red-billed chough has successfully taken flight from a nest in Kent, marking the first such event in over two centuries’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
- ‘A new peer-reviewed study has linked pesticides as likely cause to a mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies that occurred in 2024.’ www.ecowatch.com/monarch-butt...
- ‘Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- ‘Biologists in Cuba, and specialists at the University of Nottingham, have teamed up with the goal of saving the six known species of Polymita.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Plastic with a past: traceable pots made from reclaimed fishing nets www.positive.news/society/plas...
- ‘Visitors to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew are in for a treat, with the recent opening of one of its most ambitious projects to date – the Carbon Garden.’ theglossarymagazine.com/arts-culture...
- “It’s a great opportunity to discover new things. And what we saw was quite amazing.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- New documentary by Emmanuel Rondeau and Rewilding Europe – Central Apennines: A Story of Co-existence www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghtW...
- ‘London is leading the way in the movement to have pesticide-free public spaces, which are already the norm in Paris.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- “The increased amount of birdlife, the addition of iconic species will create the most amazing wildlife spectacle which will drive people into the area.” www.countypress.co.uk/news/2534984...
- Can new technologies supercharge solar power? www.ft.com/video/236f19...
- ‘Four rare Sumatran tiger cubs have been born at a Welsh Zoo, sparking new hope for the critically endangered species.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- “Never seen anything like this” www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
- “The Wildlife Trusts have joined forces with business leaders including finance providers and developers to call for BNG to be embedded in all development plans, no matter their size.” www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/environ...
- ‘The ongoing reintroduction of European hamsters is helping to breathe new life into this unique and vital European grassland.’ rewildingeurope.com/news/hamster...
- ‘We’ve launched a drive to make sure children's access to nature doesn’t end when the holidays do.’ www.zsl.org/news-and-eve...
- ‘The Edinburgh International Book Festival returns from 9 to 24 August with a programme themed around ‘Repair’.’ www.positive.news/lifestyle/ar...
- ‘Scientists hope the rediscovery means that the Barbados threadsnake could become a champion for the protection of wildlife habitat.’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
- Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- ‘A petition against the divisive draft law has garnered a record 1.5 million signatures.’ www.france24.com/en/france/20...
- “Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies — they are sabotaging them. There are no price spikes for sunlight. No embargoes for wind.” www.ft.com/content/79e3...
- ‘Magical’: butterfly sightings across the UK this summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- ‘London Hogwatch: Richmond Park’s wildlife is waiting to be discovered! By identifying species in these images, you're helping us understand and conserve urban wildlife populations.’ www.zooniverse.org/projects/lon...
- ‘The city is joined by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, which were collectively named the UK’s first official Nature Towns.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- “Watford FC continues to lead by example – aiming for net zero by 2040 and a 50% carbon cut by 2030.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- “Natural climate solutions are particularly promising counters to climate change because they are inexpensive, regrowth occurs without much human effort.” news.mongabay.com/2025/07/from...
- “This exciting initiative, working with partners right across the UK, will build on this investment and give millions of people better access to nature close to home.” www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/nature-...
- ‘Last year, Antarctica recorded the lowest sea ice coverage in history. These changes are not distant warnings; they are present-day alarms.’ www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
- ‘The unnamed Grevy’s foal, the most endangered species of zebra, was born at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire in May.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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- ‘People are being urged to help measure the scale of Britain’s butterfly bounceback after last summer’s dramatic decline.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Restoring 125,000 trees in wildfire-scarred California blog.ecosia.org/restoring-12...
- ‘Ahead of 2025’s Big Butterfly Count, Richard ‘Bugman’ Jones looks at the fate of the UK’s winged wonders and how we can all help’ www.countryfile.com/wildlife/hel...
- “The fact that environmental extremes are driving differing male and female arrival times at coastal mating sites is of particular concern for this Critically Endangered species.” www.zsl.org/news-and-eve...
- ‘California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.’ www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
