Apart from all the other well-documented and well-evidenced disastrous impacts of Brexshit, we now have this ....
Wildlife Trusts report .... "Broken promises, deregulation and declining nature: the UK environment ten years after the Brexit vote"
Ten years on from the UK voting
to leave the EU, the Wildlife Trusts have released a report highlighting the
damning impact of Brexit on wildlife.
Following the referendum, the
UK Government promised a "green Brexit", but the Wildlife Trusts
claim that leaving the EU has "turned the UK grey, not green".
In the decade since the referendum, the country's wildlife has continued to disappear at an alarming rate.
Worryingly,
there has been no significant agenda to strengthen nature protections. In fact,
many environmental laws are now weaker than when the UK was a member of the EU.
Since Brexit, the EU has upgraded or introduced 28 environmental laws that the
UK has not mirrored.
A push for deregulation, enabled by Brexit and what the Wildlife Trusts call a "demonisation of the environment", leaves UK wildlife in greater peril than it was in 2016.
The report reads: "Rivers, streams, and beaches are dirtier than ever. The countryside, and our food, are being polluted by plastics and harmful chemicals. The UK risks being taken back to 1970 before we joined the EU, when we were branded the 'dirty man of Europe' due to the state of our beaches."
As the report sets out, the current Government must urgently chart a new course if it is to build from the small number of positive wildlife commitments made in the past 10 years and meet both national and international nature targets.
Love nature .... act now
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