Nature Conservation
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to restore nature at scale.
Answered by Mary Creagh
Defra is delivering the biodiversity targets, including restoring or creating 500,000 hectares of wildlife-rich habitat outside protected sites by 2042. Since January 2023, action has been taken on 77,638 hectares to create or restore this habitat.
In addition, the £25 million Species Survival Fund will support habitat creation and restoration at landscape scale, while the England Woodland Creation Offer provides extra payments for projects that contribute to nature recovery.
Defra is also accelerating landscape-scale nature recovery across England through the Landscape Recovery Scheme, which brings together farmers and land managers to restore nature at scale and create wildlife-rich environments.
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