PondWatch 2025
PondWatch is back – and this year, we’re doing things a little differently! This July, we’re inviting you to spend 30 mindful minutes by a pond – watching, listening, feeling,…
Support the #GoPesticideFree bill
Take action to reduce pesticide use in our towns and cities. The second reading of Sian Berry MP’s bill, which was tabled in parliament in October last year, is scheduled…
Petition against use of pollinator-killing pesticide successful
Emergency authorisation to use Cruiser SB, a pesticide containing the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam, to treat sugar beet seeds in England, will not be granted in 2025. The use of the product…
Great Wheal Seton, Cornwall – Wildlife Habitat on the Edge
By Steve Jones Cornwall County Dragonfly Recorder The Red River Valley Local Nature Reserve near Camborne in Cornwall is a 3-mile-long wildlife corridor that has developed along the abandoned tin…
Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI saved as theme park project scrapped
The High Court has ordered the company behind the project, the London Resort Company Holdings Ltd (LRCH) to wind up after a judge deemed it had breached a payment agreement…
Norwich Western Link project application withdrawn
The Norwich Western Link project, proposed by Norfolk County Council, would connect the Northern Distributor Road (NDR) to the A47 with the aim of reducing traffic congestion. The BDS supported…
UK Supermarket Pesticide Rating
UK supermarkets are not doing enough to protect human health, wildlife or the environment from pesticides. Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) continue to be used within the global supply chains of…
Protect Insects from Pesticides- sign the petition
Ask British Sugar to help more farmers go neonic-free. Due to their environmental impact, neonicotinoids pesticides were banned for outdoor use in the UK in 2018. Yet the UK Government approved…
#GoPesticideFree- sign the petition!
Sign the petition calling for a national ban on the use of pesticides in urban areas. We are calling on the UK Government to phase-out the use of pesticides in…
Calling on you MP to support a ban on urban pesticides
The dangers that pesticides pose to both human health and the environment are well known. The commonly used pesticide glyphosate is not only harmful to dragonflies and other insects, but…