New wildlife Act passed 20 years of hard campaigning by Friends of the Earth and thousands of committed wildlife supporters have finally paid off with passing of a new act promising radically better protection for wildlife in England and Wales. These sites are often home to threatened wildflowers and animals such as early gentian and the watervole. The Living World campaign team at Friends of the Earth has played a key part in the introduction of this new act.
Thousands write to their MPs to demand more effective safeguards.
1999 - Friends of the Earth delivers 250,000 pledges from the public supporting our campaign for new laws to No. 10. Thousands attend a mass lobby of Parliament. The interactive site provides information on all the UK's SSSIs, regular news updates, actions and background information on our campaigns. With the success of the campaign for new wildlife laws the site is being redeveloped to help further increase protection for UK wildlife and, in the longer term, provide resources for individuals and groups campaigning to protect their wildlife at a local level. The Living World Campaign at Friends of the Earth targets the UK's negative impacts upon global biodiversity by exposing the root causes of this appalling loss and by proposing practical solutions to reduce and reverse the decline.