The York-based Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has expressed its disappointment at the Brexit decision, saying in a statement: "Membership of the European Union has improved the fortune of Yorkshire’s wildlife and wild places, through a strong raft of legislation, most notably the Habitats and Birds Directives.
These directives have given a higher level of protection for some of our rarest wildlife, including bitterns, and some of our most vulnerable places, such as Spurn and Wheldrake Ings. With a decision to leave, we urge the UK government to keep this strong environmental legislation that protects Yorkshire’s wildlife.
"Likewise, the rural development programme of the Common Agricultural Policy has been extremely important in restoring some of Yorkshire’s battered wildlife, not least our exceptionally important blanket bogs in the Yorkshire Dales.
"The Government will have to revise agricultural subsidy arrangements and we urge the Government to strengthen environmental payments to land managers."
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