The NEP led a successful bid to Natural England in 2023 for some seedcorn funding, working closely alongside our partners BBOWT and the Chilterns Conservation Board.  The project’s aim was to identify whether the award-winning “Tracking the Impact” citizen-science-led monitoring programme that was developed by the Chilterns National Landscape, is appropriate to scale up to...Read More

We asked Natural Capital Solutions to bring together available data to tell us how our land has changed in the last 90 years.  This historic analysis, conducted in 2024, was used to help inform the Local Nature Recovery Strategy work. See our Local Nature Recovery Strategy page for more information.Read More

This document sets out the main issues impacting on wildlife in the county and some of the measures needed to protect and restore our most biodiverse habitats.Read More

The NEP has  responded to the pilot Bucks LNRS survey, hosted on our website, so we can highlight the NEP’s most relevant work that relates to the information being sought in that process. The full, formal NEP response to the LNRS survey questions has also been referred to in our online survey responses, and is...Read More

The NEP has supported Buckinghamshire Council in its commissioning of natural capital mapping for Buckinghamshire, showing the natural capital assets, ecosystem services and opportunity maps for woodland, wetland and grassland habitats.Read More

We have been working with the other Local Nature Partnerships across the Growth Arc, and with contacts in Oxfordshire, to produce a map showing the strategic-scale environmental opportunities across the Growth Arc area.Read More

Biodiversity Opportunity Areas (BOAs) are the most important areas for biodiversity in the county. BOAs represent a targeted landscape-scale approach to conserving biodiversity and the basis for an ecological network.Read More

Incorporating Biodiversity & Green Infrastructure into development at every scale, from gardens and homes, through to streets, whole developments and beyond.Read More

In collaboration with our partners, the NEP Board has approved a map of Green Infrastructure Opportunities in Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes. The accompanying document explains what was done, why and how, and provides details of the opportunities within each identified zone, and so it must be read in conjunction with the map to interpret it....Read More

This publication responds to expected unprecedented levels of housing growth and emphasises the need for well-designed and planned, connected green infrastructure managed into the long term.Read More