Biodiversity 2020: A strategy for England's wildlife and ecosystem services, publised in August 2011, outlines how England will meet internationally agreed targets made at the UN Biodiversity summit in Nagoya last year - to reduce the loss of species and habitats by 2020.
The Strategy includes a commitment to "to halt overall biodiversity loss, support healthy well-functioning ecosysytems and establish coherent ecological networks, with more and better places for nature for the benefit of wildlife and people."
Natural England said; "the Strategy's success will depend on the co-ordinated efforts of partnerships involving statutory, voluntary, academic, business sectors and the public. These are to be supported by Local Nature Partnerships." |