Campaigners call for ‘Domesday’ survey of nature efforts by large landowners

Large landowners should be required to report on their action for nature, conservationists say (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Archive)

Campaigners have called for an “ecological Domesday survey” requiring large landowners to report on how they are looking after their land for nature.

They say the assessment, so-called for its echoes of the Domesday survey nearly a thousand years ago in 1086 that asked landowners to report on the land they owned, would help deliver a much-needed boost for nature.