Activists and candidates from North Staffs Green Party
have given their support to a manifesto for giving the county a wilder future
published by Staffordshire Wildlife Trust.
A spokesperson said: “the crisis facing humanity due
to our neglect of the environment is growing more serious every year, we need
to act now before it is too late”.
The Staffordshire Wildlife Trust manifesto calls on
candidates to support five pledges during the campaign and to follow up on them
if elected.
These are: creating a Nature Recovery Network with
adequate funding to address issues such as species loss and the destruction of
natural habitats; developing local solutions to the climate crisis; supporting
access to nature as a way of boosting health and wellbeing; protecting wild
places from destruction and promoting sustainable development and supporting
innovative approaches to developing the green economy.
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust write in their manifesto
that the next decade will be ‘crucial’ to the future of nature in the county,
going on to say it could be a time of ‘renewal, of rewilding our lives’, but
only ‘if we act now and act together’.
North Staffs Green Party have been actively engaged
with protecting wild spaces across the county, including taking a leading role
in the campaign to protect Cannock Chase.
In a statement launching the party’s campaign for the
Staffordshire County Council elections Coordinator Jade Taylor said the party
would be speaking out on: “the threat of loss to our local green
spaces like Keele Golf Course, the increase of regular flooding, poorly built
and maintained houses, the expected troubles HS2 will bring to our rural
villages”.
Included
in the actions Staffordshire Wildlife Trust recommend as necessary for nature
in the county to recover by 2030 are, protecting 30% of the land in
Staffordshire for nature; using local woodland to capture carbon and ensuring
all new housing, commercial and infrastructure developments are designed to
promote biodiversity and create nature rich spaces.
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust write: “people and
communities benefit from thriving, accessible nature on their doorsteps as part
of a Natural Health Service. Reconnecting with wild, green places improves the
wellbeing and resilience of all”.
A spokesperson for North Staffs Green Party said:
“protecting the environment is at the heart of everything our party stands for,
as is making access to nature something that everybody is able to enjoy as a right,”
adding that “we are determined to support the things Staffordshire Wildlife
Trust are calling for at the election and long afterwards”.
Read about the policies Green councillors in
Staffordshire would campaign for in the manifesto for the county [1] and what
they say about protecting green spaces in their personal statements [2]
[1] : https://northstaffordshiregreenparty.blogspot.com/2021/04/manifesto-2021.html
[2] https://northstaffordshiregreenparty.blogspot.com/2021/04/election-candidates-2021.html
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