The State of Nature Report reveals there has been ‘no let-up in net loss of UK’s nature’. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust share the Isle of Wight view.
CEO of the Wildlife Trust says with three local areas now designated, the task ahead is to ensure the management and conservation measures live up to the promise and really play a part in restoring our marine life and livelihoods
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is offering four prizes of £400 to run projects that involve communities in making a local space a better home for nature. Details within.
With 17 species of bee now found to be extinct the head of the Wildlife Trust says we urgently need to increase the space for nature – making our homes, gardens, farms and wider countryside better for bees
More than half of all species are becoming rarer and 15% are at risk of disappearing all together, so confirmation that all future planning developments will need to secure overall ‘net gain’ for wildlife, has been welcomed by the Trust.
On the Isle of Wight there have been dramatic reductions in species such as water voles, nightingales and even common species like the large white butterfly. The Hampshire and IW Wildlife Trust says we have to act now to protect our wildlife.
Our local seas are under unrelenting pressure from pollution, shipping, damaging fishing practises and the impact of climate change and have reached a tipping point, say the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.