Community based Nature Recovery Plans

We are really keen to support activities to bring back nature at every level, from the district or county scale, right down to a homeowner’s garden - or even windowsill.

Nature Recovery Plans are a way for parish councils, community organisations and businesses to help bring back nature.

They focus on the creation of more nature rich habitats for our cities, towns, villages and the surrounding countryside.  

Natural Cambridgeshire has put together a toolkit to help groups and communities establish medium-term nature recovery plans.

These might include targets such as:  

• planting 2km of hedgerow
• creating a hectare of wild-flower meadow  
• developing new ponds
• monitoring and recording key species, such as the number of bats and birds flying around, hedgehogs seen in gardens, or swifts and swallows nesting on buildings

For a host of tips on how to do this, please visit Natural Cambridgeshire's Local Nature Recovery Toolkit.  

For an easy way to get you started, a downloadable template local nature recovery action plan is now available, making it even easier for you to prepare your own nature recovery plan.  

If you do prepare a locally based nature recovery plan using our template, please share it with us. We would be delighted to put it on this webpage, so people can learn and share best practice.