Welcome to CPRE Warwickshire

The summer issue of Countryside Voices, our member magazine, has landed! 👌💚😊

Join us today from as little as £3 a month to support a beautiful, thriving countryside for all and receive our award-winning magazine >>
https://www.cpre.org.uk/get-involved/donations-and-membership/become-a-member/

Wow! More than 15,000 people have signed our petition for a green and fair recovery from coronavirus 😎

Will you add your name to tell the chancellor to put the countryside and nature at the heart of plans to build back from the pandemic? https://takeaction.cpre.org.uk/page/64246/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=twitter

There's still time to take part in @savebutterflies #ButterflyCount!

Take 15 minutes to count the butterflies you can see near you, and download your ID chart at http://bigbutterflycount.org 🦋🦋🦋🦋

Dividing up England into areas for ‘protection, renewal & growth’ would be a gross over-simplification of the planning system.

This would only serve to undermine local democracy and hand yet more power to developers.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/councils-lose-power-to-thwart-housebuilders-9blc5pghs

Allowing developers to side-step the planning system with automatic permission would be bad for the countryside & communities

Quality development and protecting green spaces needs a quality planning system with communities at its heart – not deregulation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53625960

The use of plastic bags is down by 95% as a result of the 5p bag charge - fantastic news!

But we can’t stop here. There's so much more than needs to be done to challenge our throwaway culture. 1/2
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/plastic-bags-down-5p-charge-a4512991.html

The @metoffice's annual report shows the increasing impact that #ClimateChange is having on the UK.

The evidence is clear: we need to act now to protect the people, places and countryside we all love.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53601257

It's going to be a scorcher today 🥵

Give your local birds and other wildlife a hand with some fresh water for drinking and bathing.

And make sure you leave a little at ground level for frogs and toads, and night-time visitors, such as hedgehogs. 🙏

We're pleased to see plastic bag use fall again as a result of the 5p charge.

But our throwaway culture persists.

We need charges on all single-use, throwaway items and an all-in Deposit Return Scheme for drinks containers introduced with no delay
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/30/use-of-plastic-bags-in-england-drops-by-59-in-a-year

One quarter of the UK's mammals are at imminent risk of extinction - including hedgehogs. Just let that sink in...

This is why it's more important than ever to restore and protect the countryside and wild places on which these animals depend. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/30/quarter-of-native-uk-mammals-at-imminent-risk-of-extinction