A team day out to Dane Valley Woods
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Ecological Data Analyst, Lawrence Ball, talks about a recent team day out to Dane Valley Woods - and the team tells us what makes it so special.
So was the environment featured in the speech?
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.
We still have a job to do; please use your voice
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.
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