What will the LNRS achieve?

What the LNRS will achieve

The Local Nature Recovery Strategy aims to address the decline in species and habitat loss, promoting a collaborative effort to restore and create vital ecosystems. The strategy’s success will be measured through key objectives, regular updates, and public engagement. Organisations responsible for delivering the LNRS can have a direct impact on land they own or manage, but outside of that, the organisations will need to work with local land owners to encourage positive changes for nature.

We have set ambitious targets and objectives for the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent LNRS.

We hope this work will help to:

• Halt the decline in species abundance by 2030.

• Protect 30% of UK land for biodiversity by 2030.

• Increase species abundance by at least 10% from 2030, surpassing 2022 levels by 2042.

• Restore or create at least 500,000 ha of a range of wildlife rich habitats by 2042.

• Reduce the risk of species extinction by 2042.

• Restore 75% of our one million hectares of terrestrial and freshwater protected sites to favourable condition, securing their wildlife value for the long term by 2042.

• Increase woodland cover to 16.5% by 2050