16 Facts About Natural England

Natural England is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Natural England focuses its activities and resources on four strategic outcomes:.

Natural England takes its finance, human resources and estates services from the Defra Shared Services organisation.

Natural England was established on 1 October 2006 by the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006, which implemented the recommendations of a rural review by The Baron Haskins of Skidby.

Natural England joined the 10:10 project in 2009 in a bid to reduce its own carbon footprint.

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In 2008, Sir Martin Doughty, the Chairman of Natural England, warned the Prime Minister of the potential danger of genetically modified crops.

However, in 2012, Poul Christensen, CBE, the next Chairman of Natural England, said that middle England should embrace new technologies like GM crops as long as there were adequate testing and safeguards.

In May 2008, Natural England published a report, State of the Natural Environment, which brought together statistics and facts about England's environment.

Natural England funded eight pilot green exercise projects through local regional partnerships.

Natural England is promoting the concept of green infrastructure as a way to deliver a wide range of benefits for people and the natural environment together.

Natural England is working with partners in the growth areas, growth points and proposed eco-towns to prepare and implement green infrastructure strategies and demonstrate good practice on the ground.

Natural England is one of the steering group partners of Neighbourhoods Green, a green Infrastructure partnership initiative which works with social landlords and housing associations to highlight the importance of, and raise the overall quality of, design and management for open and green space in social housing.

Natural England was challenged in High Court in 2006 by Peter Boggis, a pensioner who protected his house from erosion.

Natural England claimed that as the site of Boggis's house, at Easton Bavents north of Southwold on the Suffolk coast was a Site of Special Scientific Interest, the protection went against the scientific community's interests.

On 23 April 2019, Natural England announced that it was revoking three general licences in England for controlling certain wild birds using firearms.

Natural England took the decision following a legal challenge by the environmental group Wild Justice which questioned the legality of the general licences.