For a thriving countryside that benefits everyone

Now lockdown rules are easing, make sure you keep on getting out in the countryside. It's good for you!

Defra-sponsored APHA says the small hive beetle is a serious environmental threat: https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/beebase/downloadDocument.cfm?id=17. 🐝

We agree! Sign the petition to reduce the risk of importing this into the UK: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/577603

Around 1900, Hilaire Belloc wrote "The love of England has in it the love of landscape, as has the love of no other country". We believe this is still true today. Help us save it!

CPRE is the only countryside charity that works to ensure the built-up environment is used most efficiently to avoid further loss of countryside.

Join us or donate at http://cprebucks.org.uk to help protect our beautiful countryside.

Do you know what your local candidates' positions are on the environment? What have they done to tackle climate change? #BucksElections

We need to rethink town centres in order to protect the countryside from even more development. Help us campaign for some new thinking on the urban strategy by donating!

Every member has been sent a packet of wild flower seeds to help increase biodiversity locally. Every bit helps! #NationalGardeningWeek

Sewage Treatment Works are dumping raw sewage into our precious chalk streams with alarming regularity. We need to fix the infrastructure before building more houses @thameswater @AffinityWater

Happy Earth Day!

About 40% of Bucks is Green Belt, but of all the developments on Green Belt land between 2015/16 and 2019/20, only 10% of these are considered affordable by the government.

Help us to protect our beautiful #GreenBelt portion of Earth for future generations.

Local Elections are happening on 6 May. Ask your local candidates what they are doing to save our countryside. #BucksElections

We've joined forces with @Colne_Valley, @IverHeathResAss and Iver Countryside Association to ask @BucksCouncil to protect our precious countryside from an unprecedented onslaught of development.

Read our joint statement here: https://www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Joint-Statement-FINAL-April-2021.pdf

CPRE Bucks is supporting a landmark case against @NaturalEngland for failing to follow the relevant legal process and issuing a licence to fell an ancient woodland, known to contain protected species, including a rare barbastelle maternity roost.

Milton Keynes Council is consulting on a major expansion in the South East of the town, known as SEMK, until 19th April. Do let @mkcouncil know your views.

We support @BucksCouncil in their refusal to approve lorry routes for #HS2. The damage caused by this project will take decades to recover, if at all. https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2021/03/17/hs2-contractors-face-bucks-lorry-ban/

The results from the #StarCount are in! A starry sky is a wonderful sight, but 61.2% of participants in Bucks saw fewer than ten stars within Orion, which is indicative of severe light pollution.

Check out the interactive map for your postcode area:
https://www.cpre.org.uk/what-we-care-about/nature-and-landscapes/dark-skies/star-count-2020-results/

It is with great sadness that we hear of the passing of Dame Cheryl Gillan at the weekend. She has been our President for many years and a great champion for Buckinghamshire, chalk streams and the environment.

We are looking for volunteers to help us save our countryside. For details see our website: https://www.cprebucks.org.uk/get-involved/volunteering/