The Nature Recovery Network

The Nature Recovery Network is a commitment in the government’s Environmental Improvement Plan. Defra and Natural England are bringing together partners, policies and funding to strengthen and grow a national Nature Recovery Network in England. This will help to restore, enhance and connect the natural environment to create more wildlife-rich places, as identified in Sir John Lawton’s 2010 review of England’s wildlife sites ‘Making Space for Nature’.

The network will help to address biodiversity loss, climate resilience and access to nature, and will help to deliver the Environmental Improvement Plan and nature improvement targets provided by the Environment Act 2021.  

This document explains: 

• what the Nature Recovery Network is 
• what the network’s objectives are  
• how Defra and Natural England are growing the network with partners 
• the roles of the Nature Recovery Network Delivery Partnership and management group, and how to become a partner