More biodiversity will be lost due to the development of the High Speed Two (HS2) rail link than predicted, according to Natural England.
HS2 adapted DEFRA’s biodiversity offsetting metric to create its own ‘no net loss of biodiversity’ metric to account for its impacts on nature. But Natural England pointed out flaws in the approach in a report published on 9 November.
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