Wherever peat soils form - there is a conservation story - often of loss and damage, occasionally of restoration and hope. They form a fragile home for distinctive and often threatened wildlife and the properties of the peat provide life-giving benefits...

Back in March I blogged about the launch of the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and gave our initial views. Two months later, following detailed analysis, expert judgement and legal opinion, we’re much clearer about our views and...

RSPB's Senior Policy Office, Alistair Taylor, runs the rule over the latest assessment of how European countries are implementing the laws that protect nature. Just last week the importance of legal protection for Britain’s special places...

Wherever peat soils form - there is a conservation story - often of loss and damage, occasionally of restoration and hope. They form a fragile home for distinctive and often threatened wildlife and the properties of the peat provide life-giving benefits...

In science communications, as papers are published and projects reach their conclusion, we finally have the chance to shout about what we have done and why the world is different today. But, we also realise that sometimes good science is only of interest...

It’s almost invariably good news when a special site for wildlife gets legal recognition and is designated. But the Greater Wash Special Protection Area (SPA) – which was classified as an SPA by DEFRA ministers on 28 March begs some questions...

Wherever peat soils form - there is a conservation story - often of loss and damage, occasionally of restoration and hope. They form a fragile home for distinctive and often threatened wildlife and the properties of the peat provide life-giving benefits...

Dan Pullan, our International Casework Manager reacts to today's great news from the European Court of Justice Some good news today – the European Court of Justice, which is the final arbiter of EU law, has judged that Poland is breaking...

Adrian Thomas, our #SaveLodgeHill campaign manager, explains some of changes that have been affecting nightingales, and the work underway to help them - and how you can go and experience them for yourself in the next six weeks. And remember to send your...

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...