Paul De Zylva

The Bee Cause: Are Britain’s bees and pollinators back from the brink?

Paul de Zylva, Nature campaigner 04 Nov 2019

Paul de Zylva looks back at the Bee Cause campaign and assesses whether Welsh and English action plans to halt the decline of bees are working. 

2021 - A big year for climate, nature and poverty

Paul de Zylva 03 Jun 2021

Will government and business leaders act on the triple emergency? Or will government and business-as-usual win?

Ever-decreasing circles: 5 major warnings of nature’s catastrophic decline

Paul de Zylva 20 Jul 2022

“The essential, interconnected web of life on Earth is getting smaller and increasingly frayed.”

How Britain became one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world

Paul de Zylva 20 Apr 2026

Can a country truly claim to be a global climate leader while its own nature crumbles? Paul de Zylva, Friends of the Earth’s Senior Nature Analyst, investigates the gap between the UK’s green rhetoric and the grim reality of its biodiversity collapse. Britain’s natural wealth is in ruins, and as the 2030 deadline approaches, here’s what we need to do to reverse the damage.

What’s the evidence of nature declining and is extinction beckoning?

Paul de Zylva 02 May 2019

Our natural world is in trouble. Are we on the verge of the world's sixth mass extinction?

Heathrow Terminal 5 and Runway 3 – a chronology of worthless promises

Paul De Zylva 19 Feb 2015

This briefing offers a chronological summary of broken promises by BAA and others over the expansion of Heathrow airport between 1993 and 2015

Nature’s in trouble. Now, for my next trick

Paul De Zylva 19 Feb 2019

Governments and businesses are presenting biodiversity offsetting as a nature conservation solution. But it’s failing people and the planet.