The author is Adam Vaughan.
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The UK government decided not to publish more than two-thirds of the metrics it uses to track the health of nature in England this year. A landmark UN biodiversity summit is in the works.
New Scientist reported last year that the UK government was going to stop reporting on all the indicators in 2022.
Seven of the 24 annual indicators tracking English biodiversity will be published this year after all, as a result of the decision published on the website of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Progress on tackling Invasive species and the status of European habitats were omitted from the list.
The measures scored on a traffic-light scale are used to score each indicator. The indicators that will not be used this year are green, six are amber and 19 are red.
Richard Benwell told the ENDS Report that this year's indicators can't cover up the story behind the numbers. Sites and species continue to decline, instead of rapid progress towards the recovery of species and habitats.
Dera is failing to tackle wildlife loss and so it has decided to bury the evidence. The department has no shame.
Chris Packham said cherry-picking which ones is cowardice. It's like saying we'll stand down the fire brigade in the middle of the war to think about what we're doing. It's ridiculous. The news that emerges is bad news.
Global biodiversity impacts, air pollution, protected areas, butterflies, pollinating insects, and status of priority species are some of the indicators to be published this year.
The core set will be published this year in order to allow Defra to do a review. Data will be published in 2023.
Between 5 and 17 December, Canada will host the UN biodiversity summit in Montreal to hammer out a new deal on arresting the decline in nature around the world. The targets for 2020 have been missed by many countries.
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