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<p>The Government is committed to ensuring that, when the UK leaves the EU, our existing
environmental protections are maintained and, where possible, enhanced. The European
Union (Withdrawal) Act ensures that the whole body of existing EU environmental law,
including the Habitats and the Wild Birds Directives, continues to have effect in
UK law following our departure from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The EU Biodiversity Strategy
implements commitments to halt biodiversity loss agreed in 2010 by the UN Convention
on Biological Diversity.</p><p> </p><p>Biodiversity policy is devolved in the UK.
In England, those same international commitments to halt biodiversity loss are implemented
through the Biodiversity 2020 Strategy and related documents such as the National
Pollinator Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>In the 25 Year Environment Plan, we committed to
developing a new strategy for nature to replace Biodiversity 2020. Our intention is
to publish this strategy in early 2021 to take forward the new international commitments
for biodiversity, in particular the new global biodiversity framework, to be agreed
under the Convention on Biological Diversity, in 2020. It will also set out in more
detail how we intend to take forward the ambitions for nature in the 25 Year Environment
Plan.</p><p> </p><p>Under the new strategy, the Government will continue to work towards,
among other things, clean, safe, healthy, productive and biologically diverse oceans
and seas; and on land, restoring 75% of our protected sites to favourable condition
by 2042 and establishing a Nature Recovery Network. The Nature Recovery Network will
expand and connect wildlife rich habitat by developing landscape scale partnerships
to manage land in a way that supports the recovery of our much loved wildlife.</p><p>
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