Nature Conservation

(asked on 25th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to ensure that Local Nature Recovery Strategies (a) cover the entire country and (b) successfully evolve into a national network.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 2nd February 2022

The Environment Act (section 104:2) requires there to be Local Nature Recovery Strategies covering the whole of England with no gaps and no overlaps. The Government anticipates that there will be around 50 Local Nature Recovery Strategies at roughly county scale. Precise boundaries will be established by the Defra Secretary of State on a case-by-case basis so that every Local Nature Recovery Strategy covers an area that is both large enough to plan for nature recovery effectively and meaningful to local people. We are currently engaged in a process with local stakeholders to appoint responsible authorities to lead the preparation of Local Nature Recovery Strategies.

We recognise the importance of collaboration across Local Nature Recovery Strategy areas, and we are looking at ways to best support them to become a coherent national network to support nature recovery.

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