Lifescape challenges Government attempt to weaken biodiversity net gain through planning policy

How can legal frameworks support semi-wild, or “kept-wild”, animals on rewilding projects across the UK to live more naturally?

We’re delighted that we’ve recently entered into a new conservation covenant with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) for their Lakenheath Fen site in Suffolk.

Rewilding Portugal and The Lifescape Project are pleased to announce the completion and publication of a major report, Legal Mechanism for Conservation and Restoration in Europe: Examples and Lessons for Portugal. Commissioned by Rewilding Portugal and authored by Lifescape, the report addresses one of the most persistent obstacles to nature restoration in Portugal: the absence of a legal tool dedicated to conservation and its ancillary objectives, capable of securing long-term commitments on privately owned land, regardless of future changes in ownership.

Lifescape has launched an updated and improved Rewilding Law Hub, featuring notes for Germany and Romania, and new resources from our Rewilding Legal Innovation Lab and Rewilding Law Group.

We have formally written to the Romanian Parliament to express our strong concern over a proposed amendment to the national hunting law. If adopted, it would significantly undermine access to justice and the effective enforcement of environmental laws at national, EU and international levels.

In Autumn 2024, Lifescape became a designated ‘responsible body’ under new English legislation introducing conservation covenants: a powerful legal tool to protect restored land for the long term. Lifescape’s Legal Project Officer Katherine Blatchford visits High Fen, our first conservation covenant site…

Find out more about Species Recovery Officer Faye Whiley.

This is the final post in a series explaining how we work at the Lifescape Project: how we use different skills, and - most importantly - how we collaborate and combine our five core areas of expertise to tackle the complex challenge of the biodiversity crisis.

Evidence shows that lynx released in Northumberland would thrive and stretch into bordering parts of Cumbria and southern Scotland