The charts below show the importance ofgreen spacei e to people in England in 2009 and the volume of visits to the natural environment in 2009-10 and 2010-11.

The pie charts illustrate the

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was to people in England in 2009 and the distribution of

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to natural environments between 2009 and 2011.

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it is clear that

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is of great value to people in England, with the vast majority considering it important and the countryside receiving the highest proportion of

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. Regarding the importance of green

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, those who thought it was very important accounted for almost three-quarters of the total.

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, just over a fifth of respondents stated that green

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was fairly important,

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only a small minority deemed it not very or not at all important, at 4% and 1% respectively. Looking at the destinations, more

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were made to the countryside than any other part of the natural environment, comprising over half of the 2.49 billion total

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. Green spaces in towns and cities accounted for more than a third of total

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, seaside resorts or towns constituted only 7% of

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, compared to a mere 4% for other seaside coastlines.