Wales in Critical Danger of Overusing Its Natural Resources

Wales in critical danger of overusing its natural resources

Wales is overusing natural resources, warns NRW’s 2025 State of Natural Resources Report. Urgent action needed on climate, land use and biodiversity loss.

Salmon face extinction in Welsh rivers by 2030, report warns

Environment watchdog says Wales is at a “critical tipping point” as nature declines faster than it can recover SALMON could disappear from some Welsh rivers within the next five years, according to a stark new assessment of the nation’s environment. The warning comes in the State of Natural Resources Report 2025, published by Natural Resources Wales (NRW), which concludes that Wales is degrading its natural resources more quickly than they can b…

Welsh nature is reaching breaking point, warns Natural Resources Wales

WALES has always been a land defined by water and wildness. Fast-flowing rivers carving through wooded valleys, upland bogs storing centuries of rain, and

Wales can’t keep treating the environmental crisis as an afterthought. Society itself must change.

As I approach my first 100 days as Chair of Natural Resources Wales, much of my time has been spent where it matters most: out on the ground with our colleagues, seeing the work they do every day to protect Wales’ environment.  From incident response teams dealing with pollution events, to foresters restoring damaged habitats, from officers monitoring our rivers, to specialists managing coastal risks, their commitment is unmistakable. They are d…

Wales consuming nature faster than it can recover, warns new national report - Water Magazine

Wales must fundamentally rethink how it heats homes, grows and consumes food, travels, and uses land if it is to avoid deepening climate and nature crises. This is the urgent call to action recently issued by Neil Sachdev, the new Chair of Natural Resources Wales (NRW) as he prepares to welcome Wales’ decision-makers to the launch of a major new report on the state of the nation’s natural environment. Published under the Environment Act, to info…

Wales at “critical tipping point” as new report warns nature crisis is already here

Neil Sachdev issued the stark message as NRW launched its latest State of Natural Resources Report (SoNaRR 2025) – a major assessment published under the Environment Act and designed to inform political debate ahead of the Senedd elections. The report paints a bleak picture of Wales’ natural environment, warning that the country is “one of the most nature‑depleted in the world”, with almost one in five species now at risk of extinction. Only 40%…