Nature Recovery Network

The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) Annex 2: Glossary, published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) in 2012, defines the Nature Recovery Network as: ‘An expanding, increasingly connected, network of wildlife-rich habitats supporting species recovery, alongside wider benefits such as carbon capture, water quality improvements, natural flood risk management and recreation. It includes the existing network of protected sites and other wildlife rich habitats as well as and landscape or catchment scale recovery areas where there is coordinated action for species and habitats.’

The Wildlife Trusts suggest that: ‘A Nature Recovery Network is a joined-up system of places important for wild plants and animals, on land and at sea. It allows plants, animals, seeds, nutrients and water to move from place to place and enables the natural world to adapt to change. It provides plants and animals with places to live, feed and breed. It can only do this effectively if, like our road network, it is treated as a joined-up whole.’ Ref https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/nature-recovery-network

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• Conservation area.
• Designated sites.
• Forests.
• Green belt.
• How nature can be used to improve wellbeing.
• Local Nature Reserve.
• National nature reserve.
• National Parks.
• Natural England.
• NPPF.
• Protected species.
• Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI).
• Sites of special scientific interest.
• Wildlife corridor.
• Wildlife Trusts.