What’s your plan for nature?
Here’s a great chance for you to have your say on the future of nature in the UK.
The Government is working on a 25 year plan for nature. They’ll get plenty of good advice from civil servants. But, frankly, we voted the Government in, so let’s tell them what we want!
So if you had the power, what measure would you bring in? Email us with your views, and we’ll put them all together and send them to the Minister’s office.
To get you started with ideas, here are some of the things we’re thinking of:
- More learning about the environment in schools – getting proper muddy rather than just reading books.
- A ‘national grid’ for water – an overarching plan for all our waterbodies, rather than different rivers, lakes and canals being managed by different people.
- Reduce pollution – more wetlands could capture soil and muck running off farmers’ fields. And we could stop thousands of birds from being poisoned if we phase out toxic lead ammunition.
- Rainscaping our towns – rather than pointing drainpipes down concrete drains that cause flooding downstream, let’s build houses where the water drains onsite, creating beautiful green surroundings for ourselves and wildlife.
- An environment budget – every year the Government tells us how the country is doing financially. But our air, water and land is more important than money – let’s measure our country’s progress on how well we’re looking after it too.
Find out a bit more about those ideas.
