Defra unveils global nature protection plan for UK's 14 overseas territories

Michael Holder
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Strategy aims to safeguard the estimated 40,000 species found across all 14 of the UK's overseas territories worldwide

A new strategy to halt and reverse biodiversity loss across all the UK's overseas territories has been launched by the government today, in a bid to protect an estimated 40,000 animal species from the...

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