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Nature Improvement Areas
Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs)
The Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs) Programme with funding of £7.5 million has been established as announced in the Natural Environment White Paper (2011).
Nature Improvement Areas are large, discrete areas that will deliver a step change in nature conservation, where a local partnership has a shared vision for their natural environment. The partnership will plan and deliver significant improvements for wildlife and people through the sustainable use of natural resources, restoring and creating wildlife habitats, connecting local sites and joining up local action.
The NIA grant scheme was established to help address ecological restoration as part of series of actions at a landscape scale to improve biodiversity, ecosystems and our connections with the natural environment identified by the Natural Environment White Paper
(2011) and taking forward recommendations identified in the Lawton Review Making Space for Nature (2010 ).
The competition is run by Defra with the Secretary of State taking decisions on the successful bids following advice from an independent panel, chaired by Sir John Lawton.
Full details of the Nature Improvement Area programme are contained on this website.
If you have any queries about the scheme please contact nature.improvementareas@naturalengland.org.uk
