Cutting back Defra's budget is a false economy Britain cannot afford

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Hundreds of proposed job cuts and budget squeezes at Defra and Natural England risk severely harming nature recovery efforts, argues Biodiversify's Dr Michael Burgass

Across England, hundreds of protected nature sites have not been visited by officials in more than a decade. Suffering from years of neglect, many are in slow decline, damaged by pollution or encroached...

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