About the Survey:

Thank you for visiting our survey. As farmers and landowners you are relied upon to produce the food we all need, but you also have a vital role in delivering actions for nature. Therefore, we are keen to hear your views on what needs to be done to help nature recover.

The Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) is part of a nationwide move to create the space and connectivity needed on land and sea for nature to thrive, recover and be resilient. A key objective for the LNRS is to support the establishment of a national Nature Recovery Network (NRN) and 48 LNRSs will be developed nationwide to help deliver it. They are a result of the Environment Act 2021 and aim to identify opportunities and priorities for recovering habitats and species at the local level. Habitats are the places where animals, plants and other living things live (e.g. woodland, river, meadow). Species are a group of living things that naturally produce young with other members of the same group, and each have specific habitat needs (e.g. bluebell, curlew, dormouse).

This survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. We will use your response to inform the priorities and actions which will support the delivery of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy. All responses are treated confidentially and will remain anonymous, unless you specify otherwise. For further information on the LNRS, please visit our FAQs tab.

This survey asks you:
  • Farm type
  • Actions you are already taking
  • Environmental challenges
  • Long-term vision for Shropshire
  • Species and habitats that are most important to you
  • About you
  • If you would like to join the LNRS mailing list

The Local Nature Recovery Strategy intends to understand which outcomes you most want for nature and wildlife in Shropshire. This helps us to bring ambitions together from people and organisations across the county and focus future funding and help towards places that can start taking action to help meet these ambitions.


If you can tell us where you are already planning to take any actions for nature and wildlife (eg creating, restoring, or protecting habitats) then we may be able to align our priority areas with your plans and increase the funding opportunities available to you.


At the end of this survey you will be able to let us know if you would like any of the information that you give to be confidential.


What the LNRS is not:

Not compulsory, you don’t have to take the actions that we show on the final map. The reason that we map areas is to attract funding to them.
Not being delivered by any one group, it will require collaborative effort from groups across the county within the next 10 years.
Not a new type of funding.
Not a plan for housing developments.
Not a plan for traffic.
Not a plan for managing sewage.
Not a plan for managing flood risk.
Not a plan for reducing our carbon emissions.
Not creating new laws for nature.


We recognise that many of the above issues do impact nature and wildlife, and actions that we recommend for nature can help reduce the impact of some of these. However, LNRSs are only able to recommend actions that relate to protecting, improving, and creating habitats to benefit wildlife and nature.


Shropshire Council is working with Telford & Wrekin Council and the LNRS Steering Group to support LNRS development process. By clicking the next button, you agree to participate in the survey and for these organisations to review and process all information collected.
To follow the progress of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy keep an eye on the LNRS website.


Thank you for your time in answering this survey!

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