NIEL Recommendations
- We seek the resourcing and full implementation of ‘Valuing Nature’, the NI Executive’s existing Biodiversity Strategy for Northern Ireland, and also seek the Executive’s support in delivering the Environment Sector’s ‘Response for Nature’, which includes:
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- Decision–makers who recognise that restoring nature is a key solution to some of our most pressing social, economic and environmental problems
- Fully implemented and developed nature legislation
- The delivery of a network of special places for nature
- Improved management of the wider landscape to make room for people and nature
- Strong institutions for nature (particularly in the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs)
- An improved connection between children and nature
- The provision of incentives that work for nature
- People working together for nature
- A biodiversity strategy for Northern Ireland with measurable targets and actions for halting biodiversity loss
- A coherent network of protected sites for nature – on land and sea with robust protections and adequately resourced management plans
- Promotion of green infrastructure and the importance of the protection of biodiversity should be a core element of future policy development and all planning decisions
- Development of an environmental education and community engagement strategy on the importance and protection of biodiversity should be a government priority
Links
- Belfast Hills Partnership
- Belfast Zoo
- bio-Diverse.org
- Cave Hill Conservation Campaign
- Colin Glen Trust
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- County Armagh Wildlife Society
- Department of Agriculture Environment and Rural Affairs
- EcoSeeds
- Flora locale
- Forest of Belfast
- Friends of the Earth NI
- Grass Roots Conservation Group
- Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful
- Mourne Heritage Trust
- Mountaineering Ireland
- National Trust
- NI Birdwatchers’ Association
- Northern Ireland Environment Agency
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- Talnotry Avain Care Trust
- The Conservation Volunteers NI
- Tree Charter
- Ulster Wildlife
- UK National Wildlife Crime Unit
- Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
- WWF NI
Member Links
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British Ecological Society
Full Member
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Broughshane Improvement Committee
Full Member
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Buglife
Full Member
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Carrickfergus Community Cultivators
Full Member
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Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management
Full Member
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Copeland Bird Observatory
Full Member
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Delamont Country Park
Associate Member Organisation
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EcoSeeds
Full Member
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Friends of the Earth NI
Full Member
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Glens Red Squirrel Group
Full Member
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Grass Roots Conservation Group
Full Member
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Green Foundation Ireland
Full Member
