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England’s most important nature sites are being failed.❌

Protected sites can and should be driving nature’s recovery.

But today’s OEP report exposes the real problem: years of weak delivery, underfunding and political drift have left them unable to do the job the law intended.
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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New review: Recent evidence on the effectiveness of European protected areas for species conservation in the face of climate change 🧪🌍

Read on for summary highlights and find the full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Recent evidence on the effectiveness of European protected areas for species conservation in the face of climate change - Biodiversity and Conservation
A dominant conservation strategy to safeguard the natural environment and biodiversity is the creation of protected areas (PAs) at international, regional, and national scales. To date, such PAs have ...
link.springer.com
August 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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As part of @wclnews.bsky.social, we’re warning MPs about the loss of nature already being seen in their area 📢

The #PlanningBill as it stands is an application to demolish wildlife even further 🚨

We cannot accept this - it simply must be amended.

Take action today 👇
rspb.org.uk/planning
May 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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The RSPB welcomes yesterday’s report on the UK's Special Protection Areas 🧵 👇
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May 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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1/4: A lot of detail to wade through - but great to attend an Office for Environmental Protection briefing this morning on what looks to be a really thorough report with very strong & clear recommendations that are bang on the money👏. Significantly that includes... www.theoep.org.uk/report/actio...
Action is urgently needed to protect and restore Northern Ireland’s ‘natural treasures,’ says OEP report  | Office for Environmental Protection
www.theoep.org.uk
April 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM