What is the relationship between Nature Map and Rebuilding Biodiversity?
The Nature Map was produced by the SW Regional Biodiversity Partnership through a lengthy consultation process. This was achieved through regional consultation using the best available biodiversity data, local expert knowledge and the South West Wildlife Trust’s Rebuilding Biodiversity methodology. The South West Wildlife Trusts produced the Rebuilding Biodiversity approach to define a set of ecologically functional units at a landscape scale, which together can provide a minimum space needed to conserve key habitats and species across the region in the long term. A technical manual on Rebuilding Biodiversity is available in our publications section. Form this consultation the process selected landscape scale blocks of land, known as Strategic Nature Areas (SNAs), to improve habitat networks and to sustain wildlife within them.
