The Woodland Trust has launched a new website that shows which local authorities have declared a nature emergency and what steps they have taken to recover nature.
Councils are scored on the steps they have taken to demonstrate commitment to meaningful action for nature’s recovery and declarations need to be supported by:
- development of a nature emergency action plan
- nature’s recovery being embedded into plans and policies
- plans to manage 30% of council land for nature recovery by 2030
These actions were chosen by a panel of environmental organisations as the most meaningful indicators of nature recovery.
You can see which local authorities have already made a declaration and taken these significant steps on the Nature Emergency UK website.
The website also offers advice to local authorities to support them to declare nature emergencies or to strengthen the declarations they have already made.