Delivering action for Kent and Medway’s priority species
Advice and guidance will be available from this page in due course.
- Amphibian priority species
- Common Toad
- Great Crested Newt
- Annelid priority species
Tentacled Lagoon Worm
- Bee, wasp and ant priority species
- Four-banded Weevil-wasp
- Fringe-horned Mason Bee
- Long-spined Ant
- Maidstone Mining Bee
- Moss Carder Bee
- Oak Mining Bee
- Sea Aster Bee
- Shrill Carder Bee
- Shining Guest Ant
- Beetle priority species
- Anthicus bimaculatus
- Black Night-runner
- Dune Tiger Beetle
- East Coast Dune-walker
- Haliplus variegatus
- Kentish Clown
- Longitarsus aeruginosus
- Noble Chafer
- Omphalapion beuthini
- Ophonus puncticollis
- Phoenix Clown
- Pride of Kent Rove Beetle
- Pseudeuparius sepicola
- Red-horned Cardinal Click Beetle
- Sandwich Click Beetle
- Smicronyx coecus
- Southern Oyster Mushroom Beetle
- Spangled Button Beetle
- Bird priority species
- Barn Owl
- Bearded Tit
- Bittern
- Brent Goose
- Common Tern
- Corn Bunting
- House Martin
- Grasshopper Warbler
- Grey Wagtail
- Kingfisher
- Lapwing
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
- Linnet
- Little Tern
- Marsh Harrier
- Marsh Tit
- Nightingale
- Nightjar
- Oystercatcher
- Pochard
- Redshank
- Ringed Plover
- Sand Martin
- Sandwich Tern
- Shoveler
- Swift
- Tree Sparrow
- Turtle Dove
- Waders and wildfowl
- Wheatear
- Yellowhammer
- Yellow Wagtail
- Butterfly priority species
- Adonis Blue
- Brown Hairstreak
- Chalk Hill Blue
- Dark Green Fritillary
- Dingy Skipper
- Duke of Burgundy
- Grizzled Skipper
- Heath Fritillary
- Silver-spotted Skipper
- Small Blue
- Wall
- White Admiral
- White-letter Hairstreak
- Caddisfly priority species
Tinodes pallidulus
- Crustacean priority species
White-clawed Crayfish
- Dragonfly and damselfly priority species
Brilliant Emerald Dragonfly
- Fish priority species
- European Eel
- River Lamprey
- Sea Lamprey
- Smelt
- Short-snouted Seahorse
- Spiny Seahorse
- Fungi priority species
- Marram Oyster Fungus
- Orchard Tooth
- Pink Waxcap
- Purple Webcap
- Sweet Webcap
- Grasshoppers, crickets and allied priority species
- Rufous Grasshopper
- Wart-biter Bush Cricket
- Lichen priority species
- Enterographa elaborata
- Cladonia mitis
- Mammal priority species
- Beaver
- Bechstein’s Bat
- Brown Hare
- Brown Long-eared Bat
- European Water Vole
- Hazel Dormouse
- Leisler’s Bat
- Noctule Bat
- Serotine Bat
- West European Hedgehog
- Millipede priority species
- Boring Millipede
- Kentish Snake Millipede
- Mollusc priority species
Shining Ram’s-horn Snail
- Moth priority species
- Aspen Knot-horn
- Barred Tooth-striped
- Black-veined Moth
- Daisy Case-bearer
- Drab Looper
- Fisher’s Estuarine Moth
- Forester
- Lappet
- Liquorice Piercer
- Marsh Mallow Moth
- Milkwort Beauty
- Scabious Leaf-miner
- Scarce Goldenrod Plume
- Straw Belle
- Sussex Emerald
- White-spotted Sable
- Reptile priority species
- Adder
- Spider priority species
- Distinguished Jumping Spider
- Duffey’s Bell-head Spider
- Sand Running Spider
- Yellow-striped Bear-spider
- True bug priority species
- Greater Streaked Shieldbug
- Prostemma guttula
- Vascular plant priority species
- Bedstraw Broomrape
- Borrer’s Saltmarsh-grass
- Bur Medick
- Dwarf Milkwort
- Frogbit
- Greater Water-parsnip
- Green-Winged Orchid
- Ground-Pine
- Heath Dog-violet
- Juniper
- Lady Orchid
- Least Lettuce
- Lizard Orchid
- Musk Orchid
- Opposite-leaved Pondweed
- Ox-Tongue Broomrape
- Slender Hare’s-ear
- True Fox-sedge
Priority species documents of the Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy
Appendix 3.1 – Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy priority species bespoke measures
Appendix 3.2a Rare, threatened and significant species of the Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy area
Appendix 3.2b – Priority habitats and associated rare, threatened and significant species of the Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy area
Appendix 3.3 Rare, threatened and significant species of the Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy area requiring further evidence
