{"id":788727,"date":"2026-02-25T20:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/788727\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:08:12","slug":"targets-and-watchdog-for-nature-as-senedd-passes-new-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/788727\/","title":{"rendered":"Targets and watchdog for nature as Senedd passes new law"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major review of the state of the Welsh environment recently warned of “polluted rivers, failing soils” and “collapsing wildlife”<\/a> – with one in five species at risk of extinction.<\/p>\n

The new bill will also pave the way for new targets on halting declines in nature, with the aim for there to be “clear recovery” by 2050.<\/p>\n

WWF Cymru’s Alexander Phillips said seeing the legislation get passed was “a significant milestone”.<\/p>\n

After “almost a decade of effort”, the new law would “recover some of what has been missing since we left the EU and aligns Wales with international biodiversity commitments,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It will now be for the next Welsh government to pick up this baton and deliver a strong set of biodiversity targets no later than the spring of 2028 and ensure the strategies needed to deliver them are in place.”<\/p>\n

RSPB Cymru’s Annie Smith said recent reports had “laid bare the scale of wildlife loss in Wales, along with serious underinvestment and failures in how our natural world is protected”.<\/p>\n

“This new framework must drive urgent action to reverse that decline and the deterioration of our environment \u2013 nature can’t wait any longer,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major review of the state of the Welsh environment recently warned of “polluted rivers, failing soils” and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-788727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116133082082750547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}