What does Cornwall want from an Environmental Act? Have your say!

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* 1. Assuming all of these are equally easy to achieve, please rank what you believe to be the most important for a Wilder Cornwall (1 is most important, 14 is least important). Enter rank or drag to reorder.

Make 30% of our seas off-limits to commercial fishing and other damaging activities

Mandatory ecological management of the verges of our road, rail and other networks to maximise wildlife corridors through the landscape

Pay farmers a fair price for the food they produce in return for producing it much more sustainably.

Set a target of rewilding at least 10% of our uplands (places over 1000 feet in altitude) to begin with immediate effect. The uplands are perfect places to deliver public services such as restored wildlife, cleaner water, increased carbon storage, more recreational access and reduced flood risk.

In areas designated as nature reserves, dogs – with the exception of assistance dogs – to be banned.

Planning permission to be required for the paving, decking and fake-turfing of more than 10 percent of any garden

Set a target for 20% of farmland to be organic or in conversion by 2022, supported by diverting existing 'Pillar 1' area-based farm subsidies from the CAP

10% of every farm to be managed for wildlife through wide field margins, sown wildflowers, restored farm ponds and wetlands, etc

A moratorium on the shooting of Woodcock (red listed) and Common Snipe (amber listed) should be implemented immediately and the impact of shooting them measured through rigorous and independent research.

Set target for a 50% reduction in both the weight of pesticides used and the number of pesticide applications per field by 2022. (France and Denmark have recently set clear reduction targets of 50% and 40%, respectively)

Wildlife ponds to be created in every industrial estate and all municipal parks

Launch a publicly-funded national badger vaccination programme to reduce the level of TB in badgers

Make all records of pesticide use transparent and open access, so that anyone can see what pesticides are used on each field. At present farmers are obliged to record these data but they are never made public

Keep cats in at night – this can reduce overall predation by up to 50%

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* 1. Assuming all of these are equally easy to achieve, please rank what you believe to be the most important for a Wilder Cornwall (1 is most important, 14 is least important). Enter rank or drag to reorder.

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* 2. What are the 3 things you'd like the Environmental Act to deliver for Cornwall over the next 10 years? (just a short paragraph for each please)