{"id":889022,"date":"2026-01-31T01:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/planning-policy-undermines-uks-nature-goals-science\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:15:58","slug":"planning-policy-undermines-uks-nature-goals-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/planning-policy-undermines-uks-nature-goals-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning policy undermines UK\u2019s nature goals | Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The UK government has been a vocal advocate for biodiversity conservation and has made ambitious national commitments on biodiversity protection and recovery, including the protection of 30% of UK land, seas, and freshwater by 2030 (1). However, recent and proposed changes to planning policy in England threaten progress toward the UK\u2019s biodiversity targets&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aee3245\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Tomi Howe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The UK government has been a vocal advocate for biodiversity conservation and has made ambitious national commitments on biodiversity protection and recovery, including the protection of 30% of UK land, seas, and freshwater by 2030 (1). However, recent and proposed changes to planning policy in England threaten progress toward the UK\u2019s biodiversity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2523,729,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-planning","category-policy","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}