The UK’s nature restoration plans have some big holes – here’s how to fill them

By Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity, University of Oxford
Nathalie Pettorelli, Professor, Conservation Biology, Zoological Society of London

Have you heard anything about nature as a political priority in the upcoming UK general election? We haven’t. And as biodiversity researchers, that troubles us.

The UK is already one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries. Any further loss is a major risk to wellbeing and prosperity, would make climate change worse,…

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