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The LNRS is live!

Welcome! We have a very exciting announcement below around our local nature recovery strategy, as well as a number of updates nationally and locally. Enjoy!

Hull and East Yorkshire LNRS and map are live!

We are very pleased to announce the publication of the Hull and East Yorkshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy and map. This is the first LNRS to be published in Yorkshire.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council has been working with partners such as the LNP for the last two and a half years developing the documents and map, so we are very excited to be able to share with you the finished product, which is being hosted on the LNP website.  

To celebrate the publication, the LNP is hosting a nature recovery conference on Friday 6th March at the Guildhall in Hull. If you would like to attend or find out more, please use the link below. The event is free, but booking is essential.

We would not have an LNRS without the support and leadership that partners provided throughout our working groups and engagement activities, so we would like to thank you for the time and expertise you have provided. We look forward to our continued work together delivering the HEY LNRS.

National Emergency Briefing - Climate and Nature

The National Emergency Briefing has produced a series with the nation’s leading scientists and experts to present the unfiltered facts on climate and nature: where we are, where we’re heading, and what we can still do.

Each 10-minute briefing covers the impacts facing people in the UK, the possibilities if we act, and the science-based pathway forward. This playlist forms the evidence base for the national conversation.

National Emergency Briefing recommends that "Every policymaker, journalist and community leader should see these talks."

Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security.

UK Security Services have published a National Security Assessment, which begins:

"Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity. The world is already experiencing impacts including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. Threats will increase with degradation and intensify with collapse. Without major intervention to reverse the current trend, this is highly likely to continue to 2050 and beyond." 

The assessment is not a scientific report. It assesses a reasonable worst case scenario and applies the uncertainty frameworks used in intelligence assessments.
Its aim is to support UK national security planning by identifying risks to the UK from global biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse.

Planning and Infrastructure Bill: The final text and what's next

RSK is hosting a practical and informative webinar discussing Part 3 of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, shortly to pass into law. New ‘Environmental Delivery Plans’ and nature levies introduced by the Bill could entirely reshape how nature is protected and enhanced across England.

This Wednesday 5th February at 12:30pm Legal counsel Alexa Culver will talk through, and answer audience questions on, the implications of what the new laws will mean for developers, planners, nature and local communities and stakeholders.

This webinar will be useful for anyone who works within the development and planning system and will help prepare practitioners for when secondary regulations are published and rapidly brought into effect (as is the government’s intention).

Creating Wet Woody Habitats

The terms wet woody habitats and wet woodlands are interchangeable. Natural England has produced a series of webinars to introduce theses mosaic of habitats.

Guidance for Managing Winterbournes

Winterbournes are rare and special stretches of chalk streams that naturally dry out at certain times of the year as groundwater levels in the aquifer fluctuate.

Staff from the Environment Agency, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, Nottingham Trent University, Wessex Rivers Trust and the Wild Trout Trust have collated a manual to support anyone involved in caring for, managing, or making decisions about a winterbourne.

It has been provided to answer calls for guidance from landowners and organisations responsible for managing winterbournes. This is an area that is not well researched or documented and the intention is that this guidance will be updated as knowledge on the subject improves.

The Concrete Coast

The Concrete Coast project, led by the Yorkshire Marine Nature Partnership (YMNP), is reimagining how we protect and enhance our shorelines. Instead of seeing sea walls and coastal defences as lifeless barriers, this initiative turns them into thriving habitats for marine life.

A video has been made about the project, which you can view below.

Protecting Pets AND our Watercourses

Several ‘spot on’ flea treatments for cats and dogs contain powerful insecticides such as fipronil and imidacloprid. These are chemicals which have been banned from agricultural use because they are highly toxic to insects including bees and other pollinators, and aquatic insects. Moreover, they can last for a long time in the environment continuing to do harm.

Recent research has shown that these toxins are entering the environment in many ways: when pets enter ponds and watercourses, when anything that has been in contact with the animal is washed (hands, bedding, the pets themselves), and from pet urine and faeces. Worm treatments used on domestic and farm animals have a similar effect, killing the dung beetles and other insects which break down organic matter to release nutrients back into the soil.

These widely used products have a big impact on whole ecosystems because insects are a vital part of the food chain. When we lose insects there is clearly going to be a knock-on effect for birds, fish, reptiles, bats and other mammals.

What can you do?

• Treat only when needed – avoid year-round dosing.
• Keep your dog out of rivers and ponds if recently treated
• Consider alternatives – use natural oil collars; ask your vet for non-insecticide options or oral treatments that don’t use chemicals

For further information on this topic, please see the 2025 Guardian article and Veterinary associations’ joint statement.

Level 2 Award in Nature Connection and Wellbeing (Adults)

Rewilding Youth has launched a new Open Awards Level 2 qualification in Nature Connection & Wellbeing for adults.

It starts in March and is a GCSE-equivalent route through practical, nature-based, portfolio learning.

The course is ideal if you work with or want to work with children and young people outdoors. However, it is also ideal for parents students...anyone who wants to learn more about the power of being in nature.

To find out more about the course, please email hello@rewildingyouth.co.uk. 

Rewilding Youth - Free weekly play sessions and events

Rewilding Youth offers a range of play sessions for children and young adults in Hull:

• FREE Wild Child weekly wild play sessions for 0-4 yrs - every Monday during term time from 10.30-11.30am at their Rewilding Space at East Hull Community Farm, Barham Rd, HU9 4EE
• Wild School sessions for home ed and un-schoolers aged 5-11yrs - every 2nd & 4th Monday of the month during term time from 1-3pm (£7.50 per session) - location as above.
• Wild College sessions for home ed and un-schoolers aged 10+ - every 1st & 3rd Monday of the month during term time from 1-3pm (£7.50 per session) - location as above
• Wild Youth Enterprise sessions for aged 14-21 - every Tuesday from 4-6pm at Andrew Marvel Youth Centre, Andrew Marvel College, Barham Rd, HU9 4EE
• Fairy House Workshop for ages 18+ on Sunday 8 February from 10.30am-1.30pm at Pearson Park Pavilion, HU5 2GT

For all bookings and additional information the link below.

Kilburn & Strode - "Innovation for Good" Funding

Kilburn & Strode LLP is a leading practice firm of intellectual property attorneys. Each year it donates a percentage of its annual profits to its charitable arm, the Innovation for All Foundation.

For an eighth year, the Foundation is making a small number of grants available to registered charities to deliver projects which use innovative and creative solutions to benefit local communities in the UK.

A very small number of grants of £10,000, £20,000 and £30,000 are available for activities that meet the Fund’s grantmaking theme of 'Innovation for good' and its objective ‘through innovation, empowering positive benefit for those in need'.

Projects that are ‘sustainable’, meaning projects that are respectful of the environment and have a lasting impact, are favoured.

Applications are open with a deadline of 31 March 2026.

Get in touch!

Do you have any projects you wish to share with us? Want to hear more about our work? email us at heylnp@eastriding.gov.uk