"Alarm bells are well and truly ringing - this report confirms that the government is largely off-track to meet its own ambitions and legally binding targets for nature. The slow pace of progress and imbalanced, insufficient scale of delivery to secure clean and plentiful water is a particular, if unsurprising, concern, and we can only hope that this report is one that finally prompts the government to take leadership and treat our nature crisis with the proper sense of urgency."

Tessa Wardley, Director of Communications & Advocacy

Read the Office for Environmental Protection report here.