The Dorset Local Nature Recovery Strategy provides a 10-year framework to enable everyone to work together to achieve a shared vision for nature recovery across Dorset.
Dorset’s natural environment and its benefits hold real value to us and the wildlife we share this county with, however, over the years, we have weakened this asset. Dorset’s local nature recovery strategy marks and end to this loss and decline.
The co-produced strategy identifies key pressures and opportunities for nature recovery and sets 12 nature recovery priorities supported by detailed activities. It’s spatial element, the Local Habitat Map, will help target efforts to achieve the greatest gains for biodiversity and the wider environment. Together these tools ensure a strategic, collective and effective approach to nature recovery across the county.
You can download the Dorset Local Nature Recovery Strategy 2025 and its supporting documents as PDFs and read the definitions for useful terms.
Dorset’s natural environment and its benefits hold real value to us and the wildlife we share this county with, however, over the years, we have weakened this asset. Dorset’s local nature recovery strategy marks and end to this loss and decline.
The co-produced strategy identifies key pressures and opportunities for nature recovery and sets 12 nature recovery priorities supported by detailed activities. It’s spatial element, the Local Habitat Map, will help target efforts to achieve the greatest gains for biodiversity and the wider environment. Together these tools ensure a strategic, collective and effective approach to nature recovery across the county.
You can download the Dorset Local Nature Recovery Strategy 2025 and its supporting documents as PDFs and read the definitions for useful terms.
Have your say on Dorset’s local nature recovery strategy
The Dorset Local Nature Recovery Strategy is out to consultation from 7 May to 30 July 2025. To help shape the strategy, please complete a short survey.
The overarching ambition of Dorset’s first local nature recovery strategy is to help achieve the national and international 30by30 target to protect and manage 30% of land and rivers for nature by 2030. Funding to deliver this target in Dorset will require people to work together, with opportunities such as biodiversity net gain, nutrient mitigation and Environmental Land Management schemes, as well as through local initiatives.
Progress will be monitored through a review process led by Dorset Council, which will assess achievements every 3 to 10 years. This process will evaluate completed activities and their impacts, supported by existing monitoring initiatives. These insights will help refine and strengthen ongoing efforts, ensuring the strategy remains adaptive and effective.
Progress will be monitored through a review process led by Dorset Council, which will assess achievements every 3 to 10 years. This process will evaluate completed activities and their impacts, supported by existing monitoring initiatives. These insights will help refine and strengthen ongoing efforts, ensuring the strategy remains adaptive and effective.
Thank you
Dorset Council, BCP Council and Natural England would like to thank all the people who have contributed to preparing this strategy and its maps, which will ensure collective action to achieve the best outcomes for nature and people in Dorset.
