Natasha Barker, Senior Marine Policy Officer at WWF-UK says: \u201cThis marks a momentous day for UK seas, their precious wildlife and habitats, and our coastal communities. In the time it\u2019s taken to introduce this legislation, the impacts of climate change have amplified the many pressures already taking their toll on marine biodiversity. Now, after ten years of campaigning, we finally have an opportunity to reverse the decline of our seas and we urge the UK Government to waste no time in introducing the Marine & Coastal Access Bill into Parliament.\u201d Natasha Barker adds: \u201cThe UK Marine & Coastal Access Bill must simplify, not complicate the way we look after our seas. It is critical that the UK Government continues to work with devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to ensure co-ordination across our borders. We must also connect the land and sea to ensure future marine plans take into account terrestrial activities and improve management of our coastline.\u201d \u201cThe commitment to a UK Marine & Coastal Access Bill is a considerable achievement. As the Bill passes through Parliament, we now have a final window of opportunity to influence this legislation and ensure it is truly effective in safeguarding our magnificent seas for years to come. The next few months are going to be critical in shaping the UK and forthcoming Scottish Marine Bills into leading pieces of legislation for other European countries to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The UK Government has committed itself to introducing a full UK Marine & Coastal Access Bill in the new Parliamentary session. WWF-UK, the conservation organisation, was one of the first NGO\u2019s to call for a Marine Act and is delighted that British seas will finally be given effective protection from damaging activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10093"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}