What we want – mapping areas of opportunity

Identifying locations to recover or enhance nature is the local nature recovery strategy’s main purpose – so this final stage of the strategy development was very important.  The project mapped, with partners, the areas which they believe could become of particular importance for biodiversity; or where the recovery or enhancement of biodiversity deliver a nature-based solution to an environmental issue.  These areas are collectively referred to as ‘areas that could become of particular importance’.   And it is these areas that the county proposes that effort should be concentrated to restore habitat, to achieve the most for biodiversity and the wider environment.

Working with partners and stakeholders, the project looked at feasible locations and selected those that would have the greatest impact on the priorities and/or would enable the greatest connectivity across the landscape of the county.

All the work that had been developed in the stages before was also used to inform this mapping stage.