Nature recovery strategy welcomed by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, which operates reserves across this area, has welcomed the launch of the Hull and East Yorkshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
The strategy is the first one to be published in Yorkshire.
Led by East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull councils, it brings together important habitats and the places where targeted action will make the biggest difference for nature, climate and people in this area.
The project has been hailed as ‘a significant milestone for nature’s recovery in Yorkshire’.
Hull and East Riding are home to some of the world’s most northern chalk streams, meadows brimming with summertime butterflies and orchids, chalk cliffs home to seabird colonies and a coast and Estuary providing vital feeding groups for birds on migration.
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust care for reserves including Flamborough Cliffs, Spurn National Nature Reserve, North Cave Wetlands and North Cliffe Wood, and run the successful Wilder Humber project bringing seagrass and oysters back to the Humber Estuary.
Rachael Bice, CEO at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, said: “Yorkshire is in the best position to lead nature recovery; if we work together across our large, diverse and pivotal region, our efforts will be nationally significant. Crucially, Local Nature Recovery Strategies should underpin strong economic, planning and environmental policies and decision making, which together will lead to nature recovery at the scale Yorkshire needs.
“It has never been more crucial to plan for a future with wildlife and wild spaces contributing to the solutions for life’s challenges in a changing climate. Nature is necessary, not a nice-to-have, and we are losing it at an alarming rate.
“Today’s launch is a move in the right direction, we are full of hope but need to see follow up in nature-driven policies and enriched lives for everyone living and working in the area.”