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Environmental charity, Tweed Forum has launched a new Tweed Catchment Biosecurity Plan (2026-2031) setting out how partners across the catchment will work together to prevent, detect and control invasive non-native species threatening the River Tweed.

The River Tweed is internationally-recognised for its outstanding beauty, rich biodiversity and status as the UK’s most prolific salmon river. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Area of Conservation (SAC), with a 5,000 km2 catchment that includes major...

Heavy horses are being used as part of a biodiversity pilot project to restore an area of land which forms part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) at a water treatment works at Hawkley, Hampshire.

Owned by South East Water, the land is being cleared of large mature conifer trees which have been blocking the light to the forest floor needed for plants to flourish.

They will be replaced with 300 saplings, native not only to this country but also to the surrounding woodland, restoring it to its former beauty. The...