Yes, it was. It was nestled among commitments to develop our aviation industry and become a world leader in space technology but the speech did include commitments to environmental legislation. Encouragingly, it mentioned binding targets on environmental improvement and talked of “restoring”, not just “protecting” our wildlife.
The full draft Environment Bill was published today. The proof will be in the detail and in the speed and energy with which progress is made to develop that detail and enshrine it in law. We will be analysing it and working hard to ensure it contains the key phrases we need: legally binding targets, a duty on public bodies to create a nature recovery network, and a financially independent watchdog with the teeth to hold government to account.
Please act now and write to your MP to ask them to take the Environment and Climate Crisis seriously, and put in place strong laws that will restore the variety and abundance of nature in their constituency and across the country. Wildlife is vital for the support systems that maintain both our lives and our livelihoods. By the time we’ve conquered space it may be too late.
This guest blog is written by Rachel Rodwell, councillor and campaigner. She explores the respite that woodlands like Oaken Wood can provide through troubling times.
You may have heard about the unusually strong El Niño developing in the Pacific Ocean. But what exactly is it? And what could it mean for wildlife and wild places in Kent?
This guest blog is written by Rachel Rodwell, councillor and campaigner. She explores the growing fear many of us feel in relation to the destruction of our environment, and also the hope we must hold onto - which lies in the earth itself...
