Monmouthshire Local NRAP Action Plan - Monlife

Monmouthshire’s Nature Recovery Action Plan (NRAP) is a simple guide to help protect and bring back nature in Monmouthshire.

We want to encourage people and communities to get involved and take action—so together, we can care for nature and help it thrive.

The Welsh Government created a Nature Recovery Action Plan (NRAP) for Wales in 2015. It sets out goals to help stop the loss of nature and protect it for the future—because nature is important for everyone.

The Greater Gwent NRAP gives advice on how to help nature in the wider Gwent area.

Our local NRAP for Monmouthshire takes the big ideas from the national and regional plans and turns them into simple, local actions. These are things we can do in our communities and local nature sites to help nature recover.

The Monmouthshire Local NRAP will comprise four parts and will focus on habitats and species that are national priorities for conservation and are locally important.

Our strategy for nature recovery in Monmouthshire and a General Action Plan that identifies actions and targets for promoting ecosystem resilience, raising awareness and other actions not related to any specific habitat or species.

Click HERE for the plan. We have also created an Easy-Read Version accessible for everyone.

Habitat Action Plans for habitats identified as priority for conservation in Monmouthshire.

Habitat Action Plans are being produced, come back for updates.

Species Action Plans for species identified as priority for conservation in Monmouthshire.

Species Action Plans are being produced, come back for updates.

The Community Action Plan and a collation of case studies of projects undertaken by LNP members and reporting on work undertaken on NRAP actions

Click HERE for the Community Action Plan

Case studies are being produced, come back for updates

Priority Habitats and Species in Monmouthshire are species that are of principle importance for conservation in Wales, listed on Section 7 of the Environmental (Wales) Act 2016, and have been recorded in the county. Lists of habitats and species are provided here. 

The Monmouthshire Local NRAP has been produced by the Monmouthshire Local Nature Partnership (LNP) supported by Local Places for Nature Funding from Welsh Government via WCVA. 

Collaboration with partners is important, so for some habitats and species, we signpost you to action plans made by others working locally or regionally that still make sense for our area.

The Monmouthshire LNP covers the local authority area of Monmouthshire County Council, excluding that in the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park  which its own Local Nature Partnership and Local NRAP published in 2019. 

Gwent Wildlife Trust set their 2030 goal to recover ten vulnerable species in Gwent.  The species were chosen as they are threatened in Gwent and also action for the chosen species would benefit other species in the varied counties across Gwent.

The Wye Valley National Landscape AONB Management Plan sets out the vision for the designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the priorities for its management. The Priority Species Project has produced five Species Action Plans for species or assemblage of species related to key habitats in the Wye Valley.   

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