22 July 2025, 11:39

By Anselm Guise

There’s a quiet revolution happening in corners of Britain’s countryside.

On former farmland and private estates, landowners, farmers, and local communities are working together to bring wildlife back — beavers to rivers, wildflowers to meadows, and balance to ecosystems long degraded.

But this progress is fragile. And today, it’s under threat.

The Labour government is considering a rollback of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) legislation — one of the few hard-won environmental policies that asks developers to leave nature in........

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