The nature reserve with lowest point in the UK and a lost lake


by cambridgenews

cambridgenews— 200 years ago, this landscape was almost completely lost after the Fens were drained

@cityam—How damage to nature in the UK could knock £300bn off GDP. Damage to nature in the UK could contribute to a hit to the economy larger than the financial crisis or the Covid-19 pandemic, new research has shown.

TheJournal.ie—Opinion: What's the point of a new national park if we're not preserving nature?. The environmental campaigner responds to the government’s purchase of 70,000 acres and seas that will be Ireland’s first Marine National Park.

www.counterpunch.org—The Great Salt Lake is Disappearing So Utah Bans Rights of Nature.. Image by Erin Testone. Though Utah’s state government has failed to pull the Great Salt Lake from the verge of collapse, on March 20, 2024, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed a law that prohibits the state and local governments from granting legal personhood to animals, plants, or major ecosystems like the Great Salt Lake. The law is a reaction to a growing rights of nature movement in Utah seeking to secure legal personhood for the Great Salt Lake. By passing this law, Utah joins Ohio and...