Green groups demand more detail and ambition from new UK-wide nature plan

Michael Holder
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Hundreds of new saplings planted in a previously deforested area of the Galloway Forest in Scotland | Credit: iStock
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Hundreds of new saplings planted in a previously deforested area of the Galloway Forest in Scotland | Credit: iStock

Environmental groups welcome arrival of National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, but warn it remains 'mostly a cut and paste collage of existing inadequate policies'

Environmental groups have called for the government to provide more detail on how it intends to halt and reverse nature loss by the end of the decade in support of globally-agreed biodiversity targets,...

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