Increasing awareness; Increasing resilience to current extremes; Taking timely action for long-lead time measures; and Addressing major evidence gaps. The Wildlife & Countryside Act (1981) Principal instrument for the protection of Sites of Special Scientific Interest and endangered as amended (most notably by the wildlife within the UK. Biodiversity Countryside and Rights of Way The CRoW Act aims for increased public access to the countryside and strengthens (CRoW) Act (2000) protection for wildlife. Biodiversity 2020: A Strategy for Ensures biodiversity considerations become embedded in all the main sectors of economic wildlife and ecosystem activity, public and private. England’s Biodiversity services (2011) It sets out the strategic direction for biodiversity policy for the next decade on land (including rivers and lakes) and at sea. Making Space for Nature: A Review of Sets out five approaches to deliver a coherent, resilient ecological network: Wildlife Sites and England’s improve the quality of current site by better habitat management; Ecological Network (Defra, 2010) increase the size of current wildlife sites; enhance connections between, or join up, sites wither through physical corridors, or Biodiversity though ‘stepping tones’; create new sites; and reduce the pressures on wildlife by improving the wider environment, including through buffering wildlife sites. The Natural Choice: Securing the Sets out the plans to ensure the natural environment is protected and fully Government’s Value of Nature. The Natural integrated into society and economic growth. Sets out four key aims: Environment White Paper. (HM protecting and improving our natural environment; Government, 2011) Biodiversity growing a green economy; reconnecting people and nature; and international and EU leadership. UK National Ecosystem Assessment The first analysis of the natural environment and the benefits it provides to society and UK’s (2011) economic prosperity. The assessment leads on from the Millennium Ecosystem Biodiversity Assessment (2005) analyses services provided by ecosystem against eight broad habitat types. The ecosystem services provided by these habitat types have been assessed to find their overall condition. Ancient Monuments and Provides for nationally important archaeological sites to be statutorily protected as Cultural Heritage Archaeological Areas Act (1979) Ancient Scheduled Monuments)/ “Scheduled Monuments” (now
Increasing awareness; Increasing resilience to current extremes; Taking timely action for long-lead time measures; and Addressing major evidence gaps. The Wildlife & Countryside Act (1981) as amended (most notably by the Countryside and Rights of Way (CRoW) Act (2000) Principal instrument for the protection of Sites of Special Scientific Interest and endangered wildlife within the UK. The CRoW Act aims for increased public access to the countryside and strengthens protection for wildlife. Biodiversity Biodiversity 2020: A Strategy for England’s wildlife and ecosystem services (2011) Ensures biodiversity considerations become embedded in all the main sectors of economic activity, public and private. It sets out the strategic direction for biodiversity policy for the next decade on land (including rivers and lakes) and at sea. Biodiversity Making Space for Nature: A Review of England’s Wildlife Sites and Ecological Network (Defra, 2010) Sets out five approaches to deliver a coherent, resilient ecological network: improve the quality of current site by better habitat management; increase the size of current wildlife sites; enhance connections between, or join up, sites wither through physical corridors, or though ‘stepping tones’; create new sites; and reduce the pressures on wildlife by improving the wider environment, including through buffering wildlife sites. Biodiversity The Natural Choice: Securing the Value of Nature. The Natural Environment White Paper. (HM Government, 2011) Sets out the Government’s plans to ensure the natural environment is protected and fully integrated into society and economic growth. Sets out four key aims: protecting and improving our natural environment; growing a green economy; reconnecting people and nature; and international and EU leadership. Biodiversity UK National Ecosystem Assessment (2011) The first analysis of the UK’s natural environment and the benefits it provides to society and economic prosperity. The assessment leads on from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) analyses services provided by ecosystem against eight broad habitat types. The ecosystem services provided by these habitat types have been assessed to find their overall condition. Biodiversity Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act (1979) Provides for nationally important archaeological sites to be statutorily protected as “Scheduled Ancient Monuments” (now Scheduled Monuments)/ Cultural Heritage
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