Keir Starmer and his Government must make nature one of their top priorities, green groups have urged.
A coalition of environmental campaigners, including the National Trust, WWF, RSPB and Extinction Rebellion, have called on the Prime Minister to address five major challenges to protect the UK’s environment and ecosystems.
These include doubling the nature and climate-friendly farming budget to £6 billion, introducing new rules to make polluters pay for nature and climate recovery and expanding protected areas.
I got bad news for you, new government is the same as old government with a fresh lick of paint.
We need to have a little positivity here and I still hold out some hope that they won’t be as bad. It can also be done on a local level. Our council has designated areas that only get mowed once a year and some which don’t get mowed at all, and it is making a big difference to the amount of wild flowers growing. I’m sure there are more insects too. Small steps do add up.
you are correct sir, I see many local councils making effort with their local area, and that is where attention should be focused I feel. hoping or expecting Westminster to pull the thumb out and do something is a fools errand.
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A coalition of environmental campaigners, including the National Trust, WWF, RSPB and Extinction Rebellion, have called on the Prime Minister to address five major challenges to protect the UK’s environment and ecosystems.
The groups are also calling for the Government to table an Environmental Rights Bill and take climate actions like increasing home energy efficiency, supporting active travel and public transport, and transitioning to renewables.
Chris Packham, TV broadcaster and environmental campaigner, said the march “wasn’t a one-off event, easy to ignore by politicians, industry and media”.
The green groups said they will launch further actions as the new Government settles into power, including a “mass lobby” which aims for thousands of people to travel to Westminster to talk to their MPs, and the first UK Nature Conference.
They warned of the ongoing declines of vulnerable and beloved species like nightingales and puffins while a quarter of UK mammals are at risk of extinction, including water voles, hazel dormice and pine martens.
Tanya Steele, WWF-UK’s chief executive, said: “The new Government has been elected at a time when there is a wave of public support for progress on climate and nature.
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