Rare Lionel Messi-inspired football boots up for auction to support charity<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n “Our goal is not to compete with the many brilliant projects and partnerships already existing, but to help connect and support them.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We believe the South West can lead the way in showing how nature and economy can grow together.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The partnership will focus on three priority areas\u2014flourishing coastlines, clean and healthy rivers, and staying connected\u2014where nature-based solutions can deliver the greatest economic, community, and environmental benefits.\n<\/p>\n
\n Building on proven successes such as the UK\u2019s first ‘super’ National Nature Reserve in Dorset and the Connecting the Culm flood management project, Nature South West aims to attract greater investment and move from “islands of success” to a joined-up, regional approach.\n<\/p>\n
\n The South West is home to more than 1,000km of coastline and over 30 per cent of the region lies within protected landscapes.\n<\/p>\n
\n Key industries\u2014tourism, farming, fishing, and clean energy\u2014depend on a healthy natural environment, but progress in nature recovery has been limited by complexity, a lack of resources, and insufficient scale.\n<\/p>\n
\n Stuart McLeod, Director of England – London & South at The National Lottery Heritage Fund, said: “Nature South West is exactly the kind of ambitious, collaborative approach we\u2019re proud to support thanks to National Lottery players.\n<\/p>\n
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Nature South West has been established to drive large-scale nature recovery across the South West, backed by \u00a3250,000 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. (Image: Sam Rose)\n<\/p>\n
\n “By bringing partners together, this initiative will help nature\u2019s recovery, delivering lasting benefits for people, places, and the environment.\n<\/p>\n
\n “From healthier rivers to more resilient coastlines, it shows how working together can turn shared ambition into meaningful action for the South West\u2019s natural heritage.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Existing coastal landscape partnerships, such as those on the Lizard in Cornwall and in Purbeck, Dorset, have shown the benefits of large-scale, collaborative nature restoration.\n<\/p>\n
\n Nature South West now plans to create a connected coastal wildbelt nature network to position the south west as the UK\u2019s leading region for coastal nature recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nature South West has been established to drive large-scale nature recovery across the South West, backed by \u00a3250,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}