Mary Creagh visited the Heacham Habitat Bank, part of the Wild Ken Hill estate alongside the Wash near Heacham, to see how Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is being put into practice alongside rewilding to restore nature on a landscape scale.

The new BNG rules require developers to replace habitats and biodiversity lost during building projects - plus a net gain of at least 10pc - either by ringfencing wildlife areas on site, or by paying other landowners to create equivalent off-site BNG units for them nearby.

The minister said: "Biodiversity Net Gain is a world-leading policy, which........

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