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Biodiversity 2020: a strategy for England’s wildlife and ecosystem services sets out the Government’s ambition to halt overall loss of England’s biodiversity by 2020, and in the longer term to move progressively from a position of net biodiversity loss to net gain.

The strategy will guide conservation efforts in England over the next decade, with the overarching mission:

“To halt overall biodiversity loss, support healthy well-functioning ecosystems and establish coherent ecological networks, with more and better places for nature for the benefit of wildlife and people.”

The value of biodivserity

The strategy is built on the premise that biodiversity, the variety of all life on Earth, is important both for its own sake and because human survival depends upon it. The UK National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA) presented a comprehensive account of how the natural world, including its biodiversity, provides us with services that are critical to our wellbeing and economic prosperity.

The NEA also showed that nature is consistently undervalued in decision-making and that many of the services we get from nature are in decline: over 40% of priority habitats and 30% of priority species in the most recent analysis.

http://sd.defra.gov.uk/2011/09/biodiversity-2020-a-strategy-for-england%e2%80%99s-wildlife-and-ecosystem-services/?utm_source=email&dm_i=A78,J29N,44GGHG,1JUBC,1