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Dorset Council votes in favour of declaring a nature emergency

The local authority has confirmed that nature was in 'long term decline' and that urgent action must be taken to reverse its downward spiral

Chris Brayford
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"A thriving natural environment underpins a healthy, prosperous society, that benefits our physical and mental health, feeds us, cleans our air, moderates urban heat, alleviates flooding, absorbs carbon, makes counties like Dorset beautiful and that its survival and diversity is essential to human life.鈥�" (Dorset Council)
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"A thriving natural environment underpins a healthy, prosperous society, that benefits our physical and mental health, feeds us, cleans our air, moderates urban heat, alleviates flooding, absorbs carbon, makes counties like Dorset beautiful and that its survival and diversity is essential to human life.鈥�" (Dorset Council)

A local authority in Dorset has decided to declare an environmental emergency with renewed calls to take urgent action to reverse nature's decline. At a full meeting on July 18, Dorset Council had voted...

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