Caroline Snow, Flood Street, Stoke Gabriel, Totnes.
Former Environment Minister Therese Coffey is among 12 Conservative MPs who have tabled a Bill in Parliament that will transfer the power to create and protect nature reserves from Natural England to Government Ministers. Sites of Special Scientific Interest are the best sites in the country for wildlife and are protected by law from development or change of use that would damage their wildlife value.
has already cut two-thirds of the funding for Natural England over a decade. The Chair of Natural England, Tony Juniper, told the House of Lords in 2022 that “between 2010-19 proactive work on SSSIs essentially stopped due to Government funding cuts”. The impact of this has been that a third of SSSIs are now classed as declining.
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