The positive ambition initially expressed in the 25YEP seems to have been abandoned. It’s crucial to keep nature’s recovery central to the planning system in the 25YEP refresh and avoid mechanisms that weaken nature protect.

In order to meet its Environment Act targets, the UK Government needs an effective and ambitious set of nature friendly farming and land management schemes based on the principle of public money for public goods.

Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) with cameras will provide robust data to help UK fish stock recoveries, monitor and minimise bycatch, and support fisherman proving their sustainable approach to fishing, promoting a thriving and sustainable industry for generations to come.

Woodcock can legally be shot throughout the winter before the migratory population arrives in UK. A Wild Justice petition aims to delay the hunting season in order to help this red-listed species.

The 25YEP refresh is an opportunity to drive business change through accountability and credibility, creating the stable environment in which businesses can account for nature across their operations.

Recent investigations, including by the BBC, show that wood burned in Drax power station is harvested from precious forest habitats around the world and they receive millions of pounds in “zero carbon” subsidies to do it.

Since the publication of the 25YEP seabird numbers have continued their decline but government has been slow to turn its proposals into meaningful action. With the refresh coming up shortly, it's time to integrate ambitious and measurable outcomes for the marine environment into this framework.

It’s not a choice between food production or enhancing nature. We can and need to have both. In fact, future food security relies on healthy soils, clean water and plentiful biodiversity. The use of pesticides damages all these things.

The 25 Year Environmental Plan refresh, in January 2023, is the perfect moment for Liz Truss’ new government to define the positive policies that will put nature on a recovery trajectory. We are setting out the commitments that we hope to see in the refreshed plan.

Right now, our food and farming system is destroying the very nature it relies on. With climate change adding to the pressure on our land, we need to act now to ensure that our future food supply is secure – nature-friendly farming can help us achieve this.

Steph Morren, Senior Policy Officer at RSPB, introduces a new report from Wildfish, RSPB, Buglife and the Pesticide Collaboration called Chemical Pollution: The Silent Killer of UK Rivers.

An unprecedented outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has worryingly hit the UK’s internationally important seabirds. If we are to turn the tide and drive their recovery, we must act now. Here we explain the urgent actions needed to give our seabirds a fighting chance.

The scale of the climate and nature crisis may lead us to reach only for the big levers of change but places, people and communities matter when it comes to saving nature.

While many farmers and policy makers are leading the transition to nature positive food systems, we still have a long way to go to make sure that policy supports farmers taking up nature-friendly practices. The RSPB championed the role of nature in our farming systems at this year's Groundswell Regenerative Agriculture show.

Businesses need to identify their impacts and dependencies on nature, whether direct or indirect, and start driving change now. Senior Policy Officer Kim Dunn discusses how business can lead the way and start taking action towards a Nature Positive future now.

Private investment is finally an option for nature conservation. As a nation, our big challenge is to make good use of this money. This is the fourth in an exciting blog mini-series exploring our vision for a Nature Positive future and how we can make it a reality. In this blog, project consultant Jack Rhodes looks at how we can use high-quality private investment to help protect and restore nature.

When the UK’s independent climate advisers give the UK Government 4 out of 10 for progress on climate action, you have to question the Government’s commitment to really delivering our net zero targets. Governments across the UK urgently needs to move from setting policy to implementing climate action on the ground.

RSPB has released the Pesticides and Wildlife report which is a comprehensive review of studies looking at the harmful effect of pesticides on wildlife and sets out why the current risk assessments are failing to protect nature.

After the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting last week in Nairobi, a massive gap remains between what we need to secure a nature-positive world, and the inconclusive and woefully inadequate text currently on the table. To turn the ship around, we need to rally around this once-in-a-decade opportunity to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

Breaking news: there is finally agreement on a new date and location for the all-important UN biodiversity summit, COP15, under the CBD. The summit will be held in Montreal, from December 5th to 17th 2022. The countdown is now on – 166 days to go – to the moment the world will adopt a new framework to save nature this decade.

To give you a sense of what has taken place at the Bonn climate talks, what it meant for nature and how the RSPB has been engaging, here are three days in the life of the RSPB’s climate lead Melanie Coath in the week she spent at the talks.

The publication of UK food Strategy was met with a lukewarm response. Whilst there are some positive elements within the document, it does not quite hit the mark. At a time of nature and climate crisis, when so many are already taking action, it feels like the UK government is wasting time we just don't have.

On global wind day, we find ourselves at a crossroads: we urgently need more offshore wind and we also need to protect our seas, our ally in the fight against climate change and home to our wonderful seabirds

The UK is in the grip of a nature emergency. The government’s Nature Recovery Green Paper fails to really address the causes of nature’s decline and risks wasting time on unnecessary changes.

The UK Parliament, MPs and Peers from all parties came together to “stand up for a nature-positive world”, urging and supporting the UK Government to take a strong leadership role at the upcoming UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP15 summit.