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A new independent report published today has demonstrated that National Grid has greatly overestimated the costs of burying electricity cables underground. Campaigners are now calling for current plans to build nearly 300 miles of new overhead cables to be rethought.

The report found that although under-grounding electricity cables is more expensive then overhead lines, the cost is just 4.5 to 5.7 times more expensive, not 10 to 25 times more expensive as has previously been quoted by National Grid.

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Twenty of the UK's leading forestry and wildlife bodies have, for the first time, joined together to draw attention to the challenges and opportunities faced by forests, woods and trees, which they say are greater now than at any other time in the last 100 years. 

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CAP reforms risk being little more then an exercise in ‘green-washing’ unless UK takes a strong position with EU partners

An influential group of over 25 wildlife and environmental organisations have joined together to persuade the UK Government to take a firm negotiating position with the EU over strengthening environmental provisions in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). 

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Leading environment groups warn Government over failing nature record

The Government is failing to deliver on its wildlife and landscape promises, according to a report compiled by 29 of the UK’s leading environmental groups.

The study highlights some of the most controversial environmental issues of the year – including the proposed reform of the planning system, a planned cull of badgers and the public debate on the future of UK forestry.

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The Friends of the Lake District and the Campaign for National Parks have joined together to welcome today’s decision by Natural England to make the formal orders that are required to extend the boundaries of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks.

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As part of the Campaign for National Parks' ongoing celebrations for its 75th Anniversary, a fantastic ‘Party in the Park’ has been lined up in the grounds of the National Park Visitor Centre, near Libanus on Sunday 25th September. 

With Pen y Fan as its stunning backdrop, the Party is being staged in the idyllic grounds of the National Park Visitor Centre, near Libanus between 11am and 5pm and the best news of all – it’s FREE! Car parking will be provided for which there will be a minimal charge of £1.00.

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Nature experts gathered today in the South Downs to look at how nature and wildlife could be given a boost in National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The Campaign for National Parks joined forces with the Sussex Wildlife Trust to bring together a range of people from across southern England to explore the challenges and opportunities arising from the government’s new policies on the natural environment.

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The Campaign for National Parks celebrated another year of its award-winning community engagement programme in the New Forest this weekend. Over 70 volunteer community champions from the Campaign for National Parks' Mosaic programme, which inspires people who do not think or know that National Parks are open to them to get involved, gathered at Avon Tyrell activity centre in the New Forest National Park.

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The Campaign for National Parks, the independent charity that inspires everyone to enjoy and look after National Parks, marked the end of National Parks Week (25-31 July) high in the peaks of the Lake District.

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Seventy-five years ago today, on 14 July 1936, a group of pioneering campaigners joined together to form the Standing Committee on National Parks which, 75 years later, is now the Campaign for National Parks.

The Campaign for National Parks celebrates its 75th anniversary with a Radio 4 appeal recorded by TV presenter and explorer, Ben Fogle, to be broadcast on 17 and 21 July.