The Forest of Bowland regularly finds itself on the front line of intense efforts to reconcile the pressures of landuse, practically the intensive management of moorland to support the driven grouse shooting industry, with the need to conserve the areas...

Our Senior Conservation Officer, Tim Melling has been involved in our work to tackle the threats to Walshaw Moor for several years - here he gives us an updated and provides an urgent call to action. We need your help to put a stop to a planning application...

This is a short initial reaction to today's news that Secretary of State Sajid Javid has decided that permission should be refused for the proposal for an opencast mine at Druridge Bay in Northumberland. The refusal of permission as a direct consequence...

It is fantastic to see that Natural England is considering protecting a list of nationally important wildlife sites . Protected wildlife sites are a national asset, covering beautiful flower rich meadows, seabird colonies and expansive moorlands. All...

Edit on 1 May 2018: Medway Council have extended the consultation deadline to 25 June 2018 . Please tell them today to Save Lodge Hill . The battle to Save Lodge Hill is so important and has such far reaching consequences for wildlife that it...

Six years ago there was something of a revolution in the world of English planning policy when the former Coalition Government launched its National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), which reduced about a thousand pages of policy into a succinct document...

Adrian Thomas, #SaveLodgeHill Campaign Manager, brings us up to date on the threat to the UK's only site protected specially for nightingales, whose numbers have fallen by 91% in the last 40 years. Last year, 12,500 of you sent letters to Medway...

There’s something about alliterating names which is strangely popular. Take CCC, for example. No, I don’t mean County Cricket Club or even the Committee on Climate Change, but Congestion, Capacity, Carbon . That’s the title of the National...

Blog written by Sacha Cleminson (RSPB's Senior Policy Officer (International)) All picture credits Sacha Cleminson Gloom, gloom and doom. Threats. Decline. Inaction and mass extinction. Urgh, sometimes being a nature lover can be a drag as...

The Christmas lights are already on in my local high street and it’s clearly the time of year when the Government and others (including ourselves at the RSPB) deliver Christmas presents in the form of announcements and publications of various kinds...

Story by Geoff Welch, International Management Plans Adviser Taldykol and the Astana skyline, September 2014 (Matt Self, RSPB) They say that the best things in life are worth waiting for and that definitely applies to ACBK’s (BirdLife...

Story by Lyndon John (UK Overseas Territories Officer - Caribbean) This week, the world’s attention is on the 23 rd meeting of the UNFCCC Climate Change Conference of Parties in Bonn, Germany. While we are hoping that progress will be made by...

When it comes to housing, saving special places means we have to build the right homes in the right places, a familiar theme of this blog. That’s what the planning system is meant to help us do. The national problem is that we’re not building...

Saving Special Places is delighted to host this guest blog from our colleagues Sarah Sanders, Lesley Safford and Helen Byron Serah Munguti, Communications and Advocacy Manager, at our BirdLife Partner Nature Kenya www.naturekenya.org , has been selected...

At Kingsbrook, Aylesbury, Barratt and David Wilson Homes North Thames, the RSPB and Aylesbury Vale District Council are working to create a great example of a nature-friendly development that reflects the benchmark we wish to see in future developments...

Few of us will not have been transfixed by the unfolding trail of devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma - as the long journey to recovery starts Elizabeth Radford, our Senior UK Overseas Territories Officer, looks at the impact on our friends and colleagues...

Some good news brought to us in a guest blog by our Conservation Officer Amy Crossley At the heart of the Fens lies the Ouse Washes – a wetland wonder that has survived the extensive historic drainage of the Fens. It’s survival due to its...

An urgent and welcome update from Adrian Thomas, #SaveLodgeHill campaign manager Today (5 September 2017), news came through that the planning application for 5,000 houses at Lodge Hill, Medway, that would effectively have destroyed the best site for...

Written by Bruce Liggitt, Senior International Casework Officer, RSPB The Niger River, rising in the moist highlands of Guinea, feeds into the Inner Niger Delta, one of the largest and most important floodplains in Africa, extending some 400 km in...

As the Nature After Minerals (NAM) programme celebrates ten years of working with the minerals industry to help create homes for wildlife, Debra Royal reflects on the thinking behind the programme, its activity over this last decade and its hopes for...

The news that the Lake District has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site brings opportunities and challenges - our Cumbria Area Manager, Bill Kenmir reflects on the future of the world-famous Lake District and the wildlife that it could support...

The latest 2017 edition of Conservation Planner is essential reading for planners, ecologists and others working to save special places. It leads with an introduction to natural capital and its role in planning from RSPB senior economist Dr Katherine...

Building the homes the nation needs has been the subject of much political attention, both in February’s Housing White Paper and the recent general election. As Martin Harper blogged yesterday , t he RSPB recognises the challenges in delivering...

It's exciting news from Jaclyn Pearson, Project Manager for the Isles of Scilly Seabird Recovery Project. BBC Springwatch have been filming on St Agnes, Isles of Scilly to showcase our Manx shearwaters! The Isles of Scilly Seabird Recovery Project...

With a snap General Election taking place, there are probably a lot of questions running through your head right now. And if you’re anything like us, you’ll be wondering what this all means for nature. Now the RSPB is charity, which means...