Surrey Wildlife Trust urge MPs to back ambitious targets to save local wildlife
They hope the UK will be taking a stand at this week's COP-15
Surrey Wildlife Trust are urging MPs to back more ambitious nature recovery targets as COP-15's international biodiversity summit continues.
COP-15 is an international meeting taking place this week, that brings together governments from around the world to discuss everything from pollution to how to save our ecosystem.
Our local Wildlife Trust are hoping the UK will make the most of this opportunity to pledge large targets to save species across the world and on our island.
They told us they are increasingly concerned for local wildlife after a nature report revealed that one third of Surrey Wildlife in the last 50 years has either already been lost or is in decline.
Further, on a worldwide scale, 70% of our wildlife populations have plummeted.
We spoke to Surrey Wildlife Trust Chief Executive Sarah-Jane Chimbwandira.
She said on the summit: "We've got to this decline in nature and COP-15 provides us with an opportunity to bring all of these countries together and set these ambitious targets we need to meet.
"What we're asking our MP's to do is to make sure these targets are set.
"If we are to meet the 30% of land and sea protected and managed for nature by 2030, we need these ambitious targets to do that.
"We're also asking our MPs to scrap the retained EU law bill which will remove thousands of protections in wildlife legislation.
"If you think of individual species as a brick in a house, you can only lose so many of these bricks before the whole house falls down.
"This is where we are at the moment, we are in a situation where ecosystems are in such serious trouble, and it is urgent that we address this."