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‘A Scrappage Plan to Speed Up the Demise of UK Wildlife’: Reform’s Plans for Our Natural World
The party’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing the country’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, writes Stuart Spray
One in six UK species is now at risk of extinction, and average populations have fallen by 19% since 1970. It is evidence of a deepening crisis in this country’s natural world.
It is into this landscape that Reform UK is putting forward an agenda for nature that, according to conservation groups, would risk accelerating the decline of already fragile ecosystems.
Recent YouGov polling found that 70% of those surveyed support stronger environmental protections. But Nigel Farage’s party has no credible plans to reverse biodiversity loss, to safeguard vital habitats, or to restore degraded ecosystems.
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