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Let’s make 2024 a fight for nature! Show your support for the Wildlife & Countryside Link’s plans and help see nature restored by 2030.

Nature needs action, not words. Add your name and support the Wildlife & Countryside Link’s plan to restore nature by 2030. Politicians in the UK have made many big promises for nature, but the Westminster Government’s own advisors agree: they’re not doing enough to improve the natural world. That’s why, ahead of the next General Election, over 100 organisations from across the country have joined forces to create a five policies which will help to restore nature and they are calling on politicians to show their support. They want to see this reflected in all Party manifestos, to put a stop to nature’s decline.

Will you join them? Sign on to their open letter to Party leaders. Ask them to commit to including these five actions into their manifestos:

• A pay rise for nature: Farmers need greater support to help nature and manage over 70% of UK land. We want to see the nature-friendly farming budget doubled.
• Make polluters pay: Big businesses; from water companies to finance, retail to energy all contribute to nature’s decline. Through a Nature Recovery Obligation, we want to see them contribute to nature’s recovery.
• More space for nature: Just 3% of the land and 8% of English waters are properly protected for nature. If the UK is to meet its nature commitments we need to expand and improve protected areas, and ensure public land and National Parks can contribute more to recovery.
• A National Nature Service: Nature is facing a green jobs crisis and we need lots of helping hands if nature is to recover quickly and at scale. A ‘National Nature Service’ would create thousands of green jobs as well as a healthier society.
• A right to a healthy environment: Limited access to nature, and pollution in the air and water, affects everyone’s health. We’re calling for a commitment to an Environmental Rights Bill which would drive better decisions for nature and improve public health.

Read the Nature 2030 proposals in full here.

More details about Wildlife & Countryside Link can be found on their website.

Want to see a healthy environment, where polluters pay and there’s more space for nature? Sign on today using this simple form.

Embsay with Eastby Environmental Action Group