Several leading conservation charities including the RSPB, National Trust and Wildlife Trust have voiced anger over the new government’s “destructive” approach to nature. The groups have urged their 8 million members to write to MPs demanding that key nature protections are not weakened and that environmental commitments made in the Conservative’s election manifesto are not abandoned.
The UK is already one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world and Liz Truss’s government threatens to worsen this. The new government has given itself the power to revoke or amend the 570 environmental laws inherited from the EU following Brexit.
