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Local Nature Recovery Scheme

Asked by James McMurdockIndependentDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 14 November 2025UIN 89092

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that local nature recovery strategies are (a) implemented in full and (b) that their targets are monitored.

Answered by Mary Creagh

Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) are strategies whose primary purpose is to identify where action for nature recovery and wider environmental improvement would be more effective. Defra will work closely with responsible authorities to deliver priority actions identified by LNRS.

Landowners and managers are being encouraged to carry out proposed actions within an LNRS.

Actions that have been taken will be reported when each LNRS is reviewed and republished. This will ensure that LNRS remain up to date and effective in helping nature to recover.

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