A Northumberland environmental charity has called on the public to defend nature to voice concerns over new proposals from the Government.
Since Liz Truss took office on September 6, the Government has announced the Retained EU Law bill, which threatens to revoke hundreds of laws that protect wild places and ensure standards for water quality, pollution and the use of pesticides; and announced a new planning and infrastructure bill which threatens to weaken vital protections for habitats and wildlife.
It has also launched a review of the Environmental Land Management schemes, put in place to reward farmers for restoring nature, preventing pollution from entering rivers, and climate-proofing their business; as well as lifting a ban on fracking in England, a move which breaks a promise in the 2019 Tory manifesto that England's moratorium would not be lifted unless "the science shows categorically that it can be done safely".
