The Government has published its draft long-term and legally binding targets under the Environment Act 2021 and started the clock ticking on an 8 week consultation.
Those targets for biodiversity are unambitious and do not go far enough to drive nature’s recovery.
In 2019, the State of Nature Report revealed the perilous condition of England’s wildlife. Around 50% of our species are in decline and 15% are at threat of extinction. We are also emerging from a Lost Decade for nature where targets to restore wildlife and wild spaces were missed due to Government inaction.
There is now an Environment Act that includes a welcome legally binding commitment to halting wildlife decline by 2030 but the longer term targets published today do not provide the ambitious vision for nature’s recovery that the Government has promised.
RSPB - Legally binding targets for nature - where is the boldness and ambition we need?
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