Free Making Space for Nature learning pack

Local Nature Recovery Strategies are being established, under the Environment Act 2021, as part of the Government’s commitment to halting the decline of biodiversity in England. In Kent and Medway, our Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) is being developed under the project name Making Space for Nature!

When published, the Local Nature Recovery Strategy will be a spatial framework that considers what nature recovery action is needed, and where that action needs to happen to be of most benefit to biodiversity - in simple terms, it will detail our priorities for nature recovery in Kent and Medway and offer a map to show where those could best be delivered. And to make sure that efforts are on a scale large enough to be effective, this is happening countrywide: 48 LNRS’s in total are being developed simultaneously across England, with neighbouring strategies ensuring that action at their boundaries is sympathetically considered and coordinated.

The development of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy is a wholly collaborative approach, and we are reaching out to as many different people across Kent as we can to inform what our final strategy includes. But as the Making Space for Nature team have dug into the work, we realised that we were missing a crucial stakeholder group - Kent’s children. After all, the children of Kent represent the next generation of environmental ambassadors - it will be down to them to carry on the work that the LNRS establishes far into the future. We need them to not only understand what the challenges for our biodiversity are, but to give them the chance to voice their hopes for nature across the county.

So, we decided to develop a learning pack - designed with Years 2 to 4 in mind (7 to 9 year olds), and for education settings of all kinds, we hope these materials offer discussion points that appeal to children’s critical thinking and problem solving skills, as well as being fun! The materials are also easily adaptable for younger and older audiences, so everyone can get involved. To download our free learning pack, head to the Making Space for Nature website