Transcript Brexit and its Implications for Wildlife

Brexit
The consequences for DWT and its mission
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What has happened?
On 23rd June 2016 the UK voted to leave the European Union
51.9%
leave
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48.1%
remain
There is more than one scenario!
UK leaves EU but stays
within the European
Economic Area or the
European Free Trade
Association
UK leaves EU and sits as a
completely separate
economic state
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• Much legislation would still apply
• No Habitats Directive, Birds Directive
or Bathing Waters Directive
• CAP and CFP would no longer apply
• EU environmental legislation would
no longer apply in the UK
Habitats
Directive
Common
Fisheries
Policy
Birds
Directive
Impacted
CAP
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Bathing
Waters
Directive
European wildlife in numbers
• 66 species protected
• 652 Special Areas of
Conservation
• Covering 8,013,467 ha
• 264 Special protection
Areas
• 319 birds covered (500
in EU)
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And in Devon…
• 18 terrestrial SACs and
SPAs, covering 45,667 ha
• Four marine SACs and
SPAs, covering 74,091 ha
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WFD
Landfill
directive
12 other
directives
May be
impacted
Marine
Framework
directive
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Ground
water
directive
Timeline and legal process
2017
2019
2024
• Article 50 is triggered
• Two year process of separation
• Longer period during which EU laws transposed
into national law are “unpicked”.
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Some environmental risk areas
Site
protection
Species
protection
Marine
Farming
18 SACs
25
terrestrial
species
Fishing
quotas
3.1 million
ha in HLS
3 SPAs
20 marine
species
Marine
protected
sites
7.2 million
ha in ELS
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Immediate concerns
All EU grants on
hold
• Agri-environment applications are
the bedrock of landscape scale work
Legal
uncertainty
• How seriously will the courts take EU
based laws?
Government
priorities
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• We don’t know the future for local
government or agencies
On the upside….
• An opportunity to write our own fisheries policy
• It could lead to a system of more environmentally
sustainable farming subsidies, especially in the
uplands
• NE are pushing hard for water resources to be a big
part of any new environmental stewardship scheme
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The political landscape
George Eustice
Andrea Leadsom
David Davies
Sajid Javid
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Theresa
Coffey
25 year plan for the
environment
• Refocusing as the environmental strategy post-Brexit
• Focus on natural capital
• Light on targets!
• Four pioneers: two in Devon
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25 year plan for the
environment: themes
• valuing nature
• data & monitoring
• enthusing and inspiring
• better use of government resources
• markets, incentives and funding
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Emerging campaigns
Climate
change
• Led by climate change coalition
As strong as
• Wildlife protection and key sites
• YouGov poll by Zach Haynes
Future of
Farming
• A new system of farming support
based on public goods
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