Nature Recovery

The Forest of Bowland is one of England’s prime upland National Landscapes and it is internationally important for its natural assets: peatland, heather moorland, meadows, Atlantic oak woodlands and rare birds. Nature, and the landscape in which it exists, provides multiple benefits – it helps utilise natural solutions to adapt to and mitigate against climate change, whilst providing benefits to air, soil and water quality and to human health and wellbeing. 

Nature recovery in the face of current decline and numerous threats, is therefore key to the area’s continued designation and to its special qualities. In December 2023 the National Landscape partnership published a Nature Recovery Plan setting out a vision for nature along with a positive and proactive framework for the delivery of its recovery.