The Environmental Audit Committee has launched a new inquiry into the Government consultation on Biodiversity offsetting in England, which proposes to introduce a system for allowing biodiversity loss associated with developments to be measured and offset against compensatory biodiversity gain elsewhere.
To submit your own written evidence to the inquiry please go to:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/environmental-audit-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/biodiversity-offsetting/
Please follow the guidance when making any such submission to the inquiry.
The deadline is Tuesday 15th October 2013.
I am considering making a personal submission to the inquiry myself. If you prefer, please email your views (or information which supplements my last blog) to: smestowsightings@gmail.com, and it will add to my thoughts.
I think that you will all agree that this policy would have a major impact on how well we can achieve our biodiversity goals.
Thank you.
The ground-breaking 2013 State of Nature Report highlights the need for a team-work approach to collating and sharing information about the U.K's wildlife, so that we can understand why our plants and animals are vanishing at such an alarming rate. The aim of this initiative is to create strong local networks around our parks, "patches" and nature reserves in order to conduct co-ordinated surveying,increase participation, and promote education and fund-raising.
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