Government appears not to be meeting legal targets to halt decline of species, Office for Environmental Protection says
The government may have failed to protect critical wild bird populations by neglecting to implement environmental law properly, the environmental watchdog has found.
Wild bird populations are declining across the UK. Under the EU certain parts of Britain’s landscape were designated specially protected conservation zones when the UK was still a member state. They include estuaries, coastal areas and peatlands, as well as wetland areas where wading birds live, and places birds of prey prefer to nest.