LNRS through a Blue Lens

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Why is the project relevant to you?

LNRS's are the governments primary mechanism for prioritising actions to achieve nature recovery in England. They cover both terrestrial and water habitats. This project trialled bringing a data driven element from a water perspective to sit alongside the expert contributions from that catchment partnerships and technical specialist.As land managers, many of the options identified may be on your land. The locations identified in this phase have not been sense checked by those who intimately know the land, there is a great potential to you to work the LNRS process moving forward to help refine options that are sensible, and where land owners have an appetite to facilitate changes in these locations.

Key messages for Land managers

The locations identified in this phase have not been sense checked by those who intimately know the land, there is a great potential to you to work the LNRS process moving forward to help refine options that are sensible, and where land owners have an appetite to facilitate changes in these locations.

Many LNRS's are going to be digitally mapping locations of environmental needs and opportunities. There may be opportunities (Licence permitting) of receiving datasets or derived maps that could be overlayed with maps of the land that you manage.

This project (Blue LENs) has focused on identifying potential measures needed to improve the water environment. The wider LNRS work has considered the more terrestrial environmental needs. This projects outputs have been fed into the wider work where the full picture of prioritised measures will be presented.