UK will miss almost all its 2020 nature targets, says official report

Failure to protect wildlife, cut pollution and increase funding have left nature in 'deep crisis'

The UK will miss almost all the 2020 nature targets it signed up to a decade ago, according to a report by the government's official advisers.

The nation is failing to protect threatened species; end the degradation of land; reduce agricultural pollution; and increase funding for green schemes, the assessment concludes. It also says the UK is not ending unsustainable fishing; stopping the arrival of invasive alien species; nor raising public awareness of the importance of biodiversity.