Resources

15 December 2025

Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystems Report 2025

This report summarises the work undertaken by Public Health Wales (PHW) to support biodiversity over the last three years. Section 6 of the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 requires public authorities to ‘seek to maintain and enhance biodiversity and promote the resilience of ecosystems’ ensuring biodiversity is considered in business planning, policies, plans and projects.

Authorities are required to report on progress every three years. PHW has published reports in 2019 and 2022, and this report highlights progress made between 2023 and 2025.

6 December 2024

Championing Nature for a Healthy Future – Public Health Wales’ Biodiversity Action Plan 2024-2027

The report sets out how Public Health Wales is taking action to maintain and enhance biodiversity and promote the resilience of ecosystems. As part of the Environment (Wales) Act 2016, section 6, we have a duty to publish a plan and report on our progress. Our work to support biodiversity contributes to the well-being goal of a ‘resilient Wales’ as well as our other strategic priorities. Whilst the plan is focused on what Public Health Wales will do, it also recognises the need to work in partnership across the wider public health system in Wales and with colleagues in other sectors.

The report covers:
• The importance of biodiversity to health and wellbeing and the challenges presented by the current nature crisis
• A summary of what has been achieved since the last Biodiversity Action Plan was published in 2019
• An outline of how the new plan has been developed
• The actions planned for the next 3 years and how we will report our progress