Cuts to the environment budget announced in Wednesday's spending review prove the need for a radical rethink on how we protect our threatened wildlife, the RSPB has said.
Alongside several other Government departments, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), is set to be hit with a 10 per cent cut.
Added to the cuts that have already been announced, this leaves Defra's budget at almost half where it was in 2010 in real terms.
The cuts are likely to fall disproportionately on conservation as spending on flooding issues and the badger cull is likely to be protected.
The news comes a month after the ground breaking State of Nature report was launched by Sir David Attenborough and 25 leading conservation organisations which revealed that our wildlife is in serious trouble with 60 per cent of UK species in decline.
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