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BES response to the UK's Environment Improvement Plan
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Calling ecologists working in the UK’s Overseas Territories
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Paying farmers to create woodland and wetland is the most cost-effective way to hit UK environment targets, study suggests
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Citizen scientists wanted to help record UK’s mammal activity
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The BES signs open letter to PM on environmental deregulation
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Multiple habitats need protecting to save UK bumblebees, finds 10-year citizen science study
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Protected areas can be the beating heart of nature recovery in the UK, but they must be more than lines on a map
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New research shows that current national red squirrel conservation strategies likely to undermine species survival in future
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Loss of tree species has cumulative impact on biodiversity
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Bee flight suffers under temperature extremes
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Farmers help create ‘Virtual safe space’ to save bumblebees
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BES response to the UK National Food Strategy
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BES response to government plans to tackle the nature and climate crises
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Nature has enormous potential to fight climate change and biodiversity loss in the UK, according to new report
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