Nature and biodiversity

Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

13 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

Yes, Delyth, you’re absolutely right. And the biodiversity restoration piece goes hand in hand with the climate adaptation and resilience piece. We need to do both together. I had significant challenge from that committee when I set out our working timetable on bringing forward the targets. There is…

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Delyth JewellPlaid

13 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…our natural world, but an element that is nevertheless fundamentally important—is about addressing biodiversity loss. In your recent session with the climate change committee on this, you set out that the biodiversity targets under the environmental governance Bill could take up to three years after…

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Ann-Marie Harkin

7 November 2024, Finance Committee

Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session

It's a mixed picture. We've still got some 2022-23 audits outstanding in three local government bodies and one national park. And these are issues that the client bodies are experiencing themselves, so we're working with them to support them. Obviously, we'll do the audit as soon as we can—

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Lee WatersLabour

6 November 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government response to UK Government budget

In the debates around tree planting, you and your colleagues often make the case that we can't ask farmers to do things like that because it impedes their ability to act as a business and they should be treated as a business. Well, now they're going to be treated as a business and you're still not…

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Jane HuttLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

…Secretary, but with the fact that you've linked it as well, and a north Wales perspective, to the national park development, I will raise it with the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales. But it is a real opportunity as well, as I know that this provides an opportunity for people to visit…

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Darren MillarConservative

5 November 2024, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

…observatory for Wales, particularly in the dark skies around north-east Wales in what will be the new national park covering the Clwydian range and Dee valley. It struck me that there was an article in the news very recently about the quality of the dark skies in Wales. They are amongst the best…

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Eluned MorganLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…And that’s why I think £100 million is not an insignificant sum, and I’m very pleased that the national peatland action programme has restored 3,000 hectares of peatland and we’ve met our target a year early, so this is how seriously we are taking it, and it's something we should be very, very proud…

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Janet Finch-SaundersConservative

5 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

One hundred million pounds is a lot of money and let’s hope that it goes where it should do, to actually stop the nature decline in species that we’re seeing. Wales has seen now that freshwater species populations have declined by 20 per cent, with over 2 per cent of assessed species now extinct…

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Eluned MorganLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…trees, and we've seen a particular type of disease affecting them. So, we'll shortly be launching our woodland restoration scheme to support landowners to restore woodlands that have been affected by the presence of this disease, but I think it is important that our ‘Woodlands for Wales’ strategy…

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Joyce WatsonLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…in the wild. That's truly alarming news, which could have far-reaching consequences in terms of biodiversity loss, not just for the tree species but for all the life that they sustain. According to official extinction red lists, the number of trees at risk of extinction now outweighs all threatened…

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Eluned MorganLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…tackling the nature emergency. This includes our Nature Networks, Local Places for Nature and national peatland action programmes. We're also developing legally binding targets to increase the resilience of habitats and the species dependent upon them.

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Carolyn ThomasLabour

4 November 2024, Petitions Committee

New Petitions

Okay. The petitioner has come from an environmental aspect of it as well, though—the environment, biodiversity and ecology as well, and not just plastics.

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Carolyn ThomasLabour

4 November 2024, Petitions Committee

New Petitions

Yes. But it's not just plastics, it's the impact on flooding, the environment, biodiversity, ecology. As I said, I've been working on a project called It’s for Them around changing mowing to save wildlife, working with councils and local authorities regarding amenity grass, grass verges. As you can…

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