Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) are a tool designed to guide action for nature recovery. They were introduced by the Environment Act 2021 to help achieve the targets set out in the Government's Environmental Improvement Plan, build the Nature Recovery network and improve nature locally for the beneļ¬t of wildlife and people.
Areas that are of particular importance for biodiversity
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Sites of Special Scientific Interest
SSSIs are the finest sites for wildlife and natural features in England, supporting many characteristic, rare and endangered species, habitats and natural features.
National Nature Reserves
NNRs represent the very best examples of our wildlife habitats and geological features and can range in size between five hectares to well over 2,000. NNR are declared by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949, or under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981.
Special Protection Areas
SPAs are strictly protected sites classified in accordance with Article 4 of the EC Birds Directive, which came into force in April 1979. They are classified for rare and vulnerable birds (as listed on Annex I of the Directive), and for regularly occurring migratory species.
Special Areas of Conservation
A Special Area of Conservation (SAC) is the land designated under Directive 92/43/EEC on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora.
Local Nature Reserves
LNRs are for people and wildlife. They are places with wildlife or geological features that are of special interest locally. They offer people opportunities to study or learn about nature or simply to enjoy it.
Local Wildlife Sites
Local Wildlife Sites, along with Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs), are the most important places for wildlife in Greater Lincolnshire.
Ancient and veteran trees
Ancient and veteran trees can be individual trees or groups of trees within wood pastures, historic parkland, hedgerows, orchards, parks or other areas and are often found outside ancient woodlands. Data reproduced with the permission of The Woodland Trust and provided subject to the conditions of their licence.
Ancient woodland
Ancient woodland are areas of woodland that have been continuously wooded since at least 1600 and include semi-natural woodlands, plantations on ancient woodland sites, ancient wood pasture and parkland and infilled ancient wood pasture and parkland.
Spartina saltmarsh sward
Spartina (cord-grass) saltmarsh swards colonise a wide range of substrates, from very soft muds to shingle, in areas sheltered from strong wave action. It occurs on the seaward fringes of saltmarshes and creek-sides and may colonise old pans in the upper saltmarsh.
Coastal sand dunes
Coastal sand dunes develop where there is an adequate supply of sand in the intertidal zone and where onshore winds are prevalent. The critical factor is the presence of a sufficiently large beach plain whose surface dries out between high tides. The dry sand is then blown landwards and deposited above high water mark, where it is trapped by specialised dune-building grasses which grow up through successive layers of deposited sand.
Lowland fen
Fens are peatlands which receive water and nutrients from the soil, rock and ground water as well as from rainfall: they are minerotrophic. Two types of fen can broadly be distinguished: topogenous and soligenous. Topogenous fens are those where water movements in the peat or soil are generally vertical. They include basin fens and floodplain fen. Soligenous fens, where water movements are predominantly lateral, include mires associated with springs, rills and flushes in the uplands, valley mires, springs and flushes in the lowlands, trackways and ladder fens in blanket bogs and laggs of raised bogs.
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