Tracking animal welfare policy and news across the UK.
Recent rain and flooding across Devon and Cornwall is impacting wildlife and their habitats.
The updated strategy should mean areas like Strangford Lough will be better protected in five years' time.
It comes after former Drone to Home volunteers raised concerns about the charity with the BBC.
Winchester's MP highlights sewage spills potentially affecting the endangered Atlantic salmon.
A family of beavers have been brought from Scotland to improve biodiversity in a Lincolnshire river.
A new law designed to better protect nature and reverse the loss of wildlife in Wales is passed.
Each year the birds must stay on floating ice long enough to replace their weather-beaten feathers.
The native species was driven to extinction by sailors in the 1800s. Now, 158 juvenile giant tortoises have been reintroduced to the island.
The government unveils a long awaited 10-year deer management plan that will identify priority culling areas.
The National Trust describes the Northey Island project as "a bold marine engineering feat".