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England Biodiversity Strategy |
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Published in October 2002, the England Biodiversity Strategy brings together England's key contributions to achieving the 2010 target to halt biodiversity loss, seeks to make biodiversity part of the mainstream of our thinking and emphasises that healthy, thriving and diverse ecosystems are essential to everybody's quality of life and well-being.
The strategy is about partnership - partnership to deliver more biodiversity, for its own intrinsic value, for the services it provides, and because it enriches people's lives. The approach that it set out comprises a combination of: protecting the best wildlife sites; promoting the recovery of declining species and habitats; embedding biodiversity in all relevant sectors of policy and decision-making; enthusing people and developing the evidence base. In particular, it set out five key policy areas where integration needed to be achieved and identified five areas where crosscutting improvement was needed. Strategic Implementation Groups (SIGs), with members from key stakeholder groups from government, non-departmental public bodies and non-governmental organisations, have been established to ensure the coordinated implementation of action plans for these areas, called 'workstreams'.
The SIGs report to the England Biodiversity Group, every six months, through BARS. Click on a workstream link to learn more about the objectives of the Strategy and to view progress.
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