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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

Nature in England at risk due to government failures, says environment watchdog

Volunteers clean up a tributary of the River Lea in north London
England will fail to meet its target of halting nature’s decline by 2030 if action is not taken by ministers, the Office for Environmental Protection report said. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

The government is failing on almost all of its environmental targets, risking an “irreversible spiral of decline” in nature, a damning report by the environment watchdog has found.

Dame Glenys Stacey, chair of the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), has said in the report, published today, that if action is not taken England will fail to meet its goal of halting nature’s decline by 2030, as well as a host of other vital nature targets.

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