Everyone, everywhere, should be able to grow up and grow old with nature.
The Covid-19 pandemic proved how important spending time in nature is to people’s health and wellbeing but it also highlighted the inequalities in access to thriving natural spaces.
One in three people in England do not have nature near their home with little or no greenspace at all in some of the most disadvantaged areas. Ethnic minorities are twice as likely to live in a neighbourhood without nature-rich spaces.
The Government has promised to create equal opportunities and quality of life for everyone across the country through its “levelling up” agenda.
To achieve this, the Government proposes to introduce new laws. This will include changes to the planning system making this a key opportunity to secure a “right to nature” for every community.
Wildlife and Countryside Link is a coalition of over 70 different organisations who have come together behind this issue. Through the Nature for Everyone campaign, they are our calling on the Government to:
Make equal access to nature a core test of “levelling up”
Make it a legal requirement in new “levelling up” laws for developers and public bodies to provide access to nature-rich local spaces for everyone
Provide funding for locally accessible nature-rich spaces by extending the Levelling Up Fund to green infrastructure projects
The Guardian - UK wildlife campaigners call for legal right to access nature for all
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Stay safe, stay well, stay strong, stay connected with nature
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