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Footage of a speedboat hurtling through a beauty spot has sparked environmental concerns about visitors disturbing species facing extinction. Sandwich and Pegwell Bay is a nature reserve and one of ...

New plans to develop prime farmland close to a precious wildlife habitat in Thanet have sparked fury among concerned nature lovers. It comes after developers revealed they are eyeing up a site for a ...

Kitesurfers say they are devastated after being banned from a coastal Kent beauty spot they had used for more than 20 years after “disturbing birds”. An agreement between Natural England, Kent ...

Plans for major electricity infrastructure on the Kent coast have been condemned as a “carbuncle on the landscape”. Sir Roger ...

Pegwell Bay is complex mosaic of habitats which containe many internationally important and rare plants and animals. In the spring, migrant birds such as nightingales, cuckoos and warblers arrive on ...