{"id":510076,"date":"2026-04-03T03:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510076\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:13:09","slug":"labour-pledges-90-million-towards-britains-endangered-wildlife-as-uks-nature-crisis-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510076\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour pledges \u00a390 MILLION towards Britain\u2019s endangered wildlife as UK’s nature crisis worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Labour ministers have spent an all-time high investment of \u00a390million to protect Britain’s most threatened species as fears arise concerning the UK\u2019s worsening nature crisis.<\/p>\n

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) describe the investment as the largest-ever put towards supporting and reintroducing wildlife across the country.<\/p>\n

The money will be used to preserve species including birds, beavers, beetles, snails, spiders and seahorses across the UK.<\/p>\n

Some \u00a360million is set to be distributed through Natural England\u2019s species recovery programme over the next three years.<\/p>\n

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Historic success stories such as recoveries of red kites have been highlighted<\/p>\n

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Another \u00a330million will go towards conservation work across Britain’s national forests.<\/p>\n

Labour has pledged to protect 30 per cent of land and sea for nature by 2030, and reducing extinction risk by 2042.<\/p>\n

As it stands however, the Government is currently significantly off-target.<\/p>\n

With one in six species now at risk of extinction, Britain is now considered one of the most severely nature-depleted countries in the world. Since 1970 wildlife populations have fallen by about a third.<\/p>\n

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The money will be used to preserve species including beavers<\/p>\n

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Historic success stories such as recoveries of red kites, pool frogs and large blue butterflies have been highlighted by Chair Tony Juniper, who makes a hopeful statement claiming that species decline is nearly always reversible.<\/p>\n

The projects set to receive this new funding will be announced within the next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour ministers have spent an all-time high investment of \u00a390million to protect Britain’s most threatened species as fears…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[50,229,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-510076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-politics","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}