Nature Conservation

(asked on 28th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to maintain the protections species and habitats have through Special Protection Areas (SPAs) and Special Areas of Conservation (SACs).


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 4th November 2022

Nature is in need of our help, so HM Government has set a legally binding target to halt its decline by 2030.

In March this year, we published the Nature Recovery Green Paper setting out our proposals to reform our system of protections to better support this ambitious work, including the Habitats Regulations. The Green Paper is available here. Our proposals seek to create a system that better reflects the latest science and impending impacts of climate change, our domestic species and habitats, and helps us to achieve our significant goals to recover nature.

The Nature Recovery Green Paper consultation closed on 11th May and we are now in the process of analysing responses. The Government will publish a formal response on conclusion of this exercise.

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