Natural England funding boost gets cautious welcome

The government has allocated £15m in additional funding to Natural England for this financial year after a decade of cuts that have left England’s wildlife agency “in crisis”. Natural England’s chairman, Tony Juniper, said the funding marked a “significant change of trend” in the financing of the government body, which has seen its budget slashed by £180m since 2008. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – which sponsors Natural…