The first Local Nature Recovery Strategies for Sussex are now open for consultation - share your views before 26 November 2025!

East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove are home to wondrous and iconic wildlife including internationally rare habitats and species. But like the rest of the UK, nature in Sussex urgently needs our help. Local Nature Recovery Strategies are a new approach to help us do that, and everyone in Sussex can take part. 

Two years in the making, and developed with input from over 2,000 local people, groups and organisations, the very first Local Nature Recovery Strategies for Sussex have now been drafted! 

A six-week consultation has just launched to give those living and working in West Sussex, East Sussex and Brighton & Hove the chance to share their views on the plans.  
 
The draft strategies build on and support existing nature recovery efforts already underway in Sussex, from large-scale initiatives to grassroots projects. They help us all to understand what nature needs in our local area and provide a tool that will guide our actions to enable the recovery of this most precious resource.  

Each strategy contains 7 principles, 24 priorities and over 100 practical actions to help reverse the decline in habitats and species. These range from incentivising the creation of new wildlife-rich spaces, to small everyday actions that anyone can take to encourage wildlife into their gardens.  
 
Explore your Local Nature Recovery Strategy and have your say before 26 November 2025.  
 
To take part, visit East Sussex and Brighton & Hove LNRS or West Sussex LNRS or find out more on Sussex Nature Recovery.