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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Emily Beament

Get nature-friendly farming ‘right’ to meet legal green goals, watchdog warns

Red poll cattle grazing at Wild Ken Hill in Norfolk (Emily Beament/PA) - (PA Archive)

The Government should “put the wind in the sails” of landscape-wide nature-friendly farming schemes to meet key environment targets, a watchdog has warned.

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) said progress on improving the natural environment had slowed under the last government, and Labour had not yet done enough to get back on track to meet legal commitments.

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