Support
Issues and Options Document
Representation ID: 35598
Received: 07/03/2018
Respondent: Essex Wildlife Trust
We would support this approach with the caveat that we would wish to see strengthening of the overall strategic approach to protecting and enhancing protected and priority habitats. This should include a firm commitment to the principle of enhancing habitat connectivity through the creation of new wildlife corridors and contributing to landscape-scale protection and conservation of wildlife and biodiversity. The Local Wildlife Sites review should form the basis for robust protection of LoWS as an integral component of such a policy.
We would support this approach with the caveat that we would wish to see strengthening of the overall strategic approach to protecting and enhancing protected and priority habitats. This should include a firm commitment to the principle of enhancing habitat connectivity through the creation of new wildlife corridors and contributing to landscape-scale protection and conservation of wildlife and biodiversity. The Local Wildlife Sites review should form the basis for robust protection of LoWS as an integral component of such a policy.