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Short-eared Owl at Kilnsea Wetlands, Mike Rusling

our aims

We will maximise investment in the natural environment that creates benefits for people and the economy to:

1. support sustainable development

  • Develop the role that the natural environment plays in local economies.
  • Guide strategic planning

2. promote the value of the natural environment

  • Ensure the natural environment is mainstreamed in decision making.
  • Promote the health and wellbeing benefits that the natural environment provides.
  • Promote the role of the natural environment in meeting the challenges of climate change.

3. create a healthy natural environment

  • Contribute to sustainable land, sea and coastal management.
  • Enhance green infrastructure working at landscape-scale.
  • Promote alternative ways of managing water by utilising natural processes.
  • Champion the natural environment – promote investment in our degraded natural environment to local decision makers.
Hedgehog

Hedgehog, East Riding of Yorkshire Council

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Marbled White Butterflies on Field Scabious, Simon Tull

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HOW WILL THE LNP ADD VALUE?

WORK AT A MEANINGFUL LEVEL FOR CHANGE

Promote landscape-scale change, and strengthen and develop green networks that create more natural assets, a sustainable economy and improved health.

SUPPORT LOCAL ACTIVITY

Identify and support funding opportunities and promote best practice to foster more effective delivery.

INFLUENCE DECISIONS

Act as a local voice in national discussions with government departments, and strengthen natural links in local strategies.

IMPROVE COMMUNICATION

Improve people’s understanding of the wide variety of local activities to discover opportunities to work better together.

See some of the projects we're supporting