Statement of biodiversity priorities – priorities and potential measures

Part 3 of the Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy “Statement of biodiversity priorities – priorities and potential measures” presents:

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.
    • Grassland habitats overview and priorities and potential measures
    • Successional habitats overview and priorities and potential measures
    • Woodland, trees and hedgerows overview and priorities and potential measures
    • Freshwater habitats overview and priorities and potential measures
    • Urban habitats overview and priorities and potential measures
    • Coastal habitats overview and priorities and potential measures
  • 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
    • 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
    • Vascular Plants