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Statement of biodiversity priorities – priorities and potential measures

Part 3 of the Strategy presents the agreed priorities for nature recovery, the potential measures (actions) that will deliver these and the county’s priority species.

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Contents of “Statement of biodiversity priorities – priorities and potential measures”

1. Better, bigger, more and joined up – the overarching principles for nature recovery in Kent and Medway.

2. Building blocks of nature recovery – the basis of nature recovery in Kent.

3. Kent and Medway’s vision for nature recovery – outlining the Strategy’s 10 ambitions for nature recovery.

4. Understanding the priorities and potential measures – an overview of how the priorities and measures deliver against the Strategy principles.

5. The priority and measures page layout – how the Strategy priorities and measures are presented and how to use the information presented.

6. How to use the potential measures and mapping to inform nature recovery:

  • Mapping limitations
  • Identifying action to recover nature
  • Prioritising action
  • Using the wider measures maps
  • Informing biodiversity net gain
  • Protecting nature

7. Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy priorities and potential measures:

  • Connectivity priorities and potential measures: an overview of habitat fragmentation and the importance of improving connectivity, and presentation of the priorities and potential measures.
  • Nature-based solutions priorities and potential measures: an overview of nature-based solutions and the opportunities in Kent and Medway, and a presentation of the priorities and potential measures.
  • Land management and land use priorities and potential measures: an overview of land management and land use and the opportunities in Kent and Medway, and presentation of the priorities and potential measures.
  • Habitat priorities and potential measures: an overview of the county’s habitat, pressures and threats, and the importance of, and opportunities for, recovering the habitat; a summary of nature-based solution opportunities and wider benefits of the habitat; and presentation of the priorities and potential measures.  Focusing on the broad habitat groupings of grassland, successional habitats, woodland, trees and hedgerows, freshwater, urban and coastal.
  • Species priorities and potential measures: an overview of Kent’s species, and a presentation of the species identified as priorities for the Strategy and the potential measures needed for their recovery with species from the taxa of amphibians, annelids, bees, wasps and ants, beetles, birds, butterflies, caddisflies, crustaceans, dragonflies and damselflies, fish, fungi, grasshoppers, crickets and allies, lichen, mammals, millipedes, molluscs, moths, reptiles, spiders, true bugs and vascular plants.