Acknowledgements

The development of the Devon Local Nature Recovery Strategy was a huge collaboration across countless experts and organisations that worked tirelessly to help produce this strategy.  Key individuals and groups are listed below, however, there were many more than it would be possible to list who contributed to this strategy and/or supported its development.

Thanks also goes to all those who contributed through the consultation process, including sharing  photographs and case studies.

Core team

  • Amber Veacock (Devon County Council/DCC)- Project support (Website, species and comms)
  • Annie Houston (DCC)- Project support (Species and website)
  • Bella Birch-Hurst – Comms
  • Ben Wyatt (Natural England)- NE lead for Devon LNRS
  • Beth Bird (DCC)- Project coordination and stakeholder engagement lead
  • Dominic Acland- Project and mapping support, LNRS Farming Group coordinator
  • Eleanor Ward (DCC)- Project support  (Mapping and intertidal)
  • Kate Hind-(DCC)- Intertidal and health
  • Katie Pagan(DCC)- Mapping and comms
  • Mathew Odgers-Brown (Forestry Commission)- FC lead for Devon LNRS
  • Sarah Jennings (DCC)- Project manager
  • Sarah Tyler, Anna Henderson-Smith, Marcus Salmon and Shaun Pritchard, (Environment Agency)- EA leads for Devon LNRS

Website design

  • Dan Grist- Videographer (farming video)
  • Louie Aldworth- Website designer
  • Neil Warren- Videographer (Devon LNRS video)

Viewer and mapping

  • David Chamberlain (DCC then freelance) – Viewer lead and digitising
  • Richard Smith (EA soils expert) – input into use of Soilscapes for mapping opportunity areas
  • Habitat and species leads – see below
  • Ed Parr Ferris (DWT) – initial work on habitat opportunity mapping prior to LNRS
  • Adam Falconer (DBRC) – digitising and Marxan exploration
  • Marcus Windle (DBRC) – Marxan (see Mapping Methodology table on the Mapping page)
  • Jonathan Mosedale, Ilya Maclean and David Baker (Exeter University) – Marxan development
  • Jonathon Mosedale- Natural Flood Management mapping

Copywriter

  • Sarah Russell- Copywriter

Support from

  • Anne Wilcox, Robin Milton, Andy Gray and others from the LNRS Farming Group and the NFU Managers Group
  • Chris Woodruff- Stakeholder engagement
  • Robert Dean and Paul Buckley – initial project support

Supporting authorities

  • Dartmoor National Park Authority
  • Devon County Council (Responsible Authority)
  • East Devon District Council
  • Exeter City Council
  • Exmoor National Park Authority
  • Mid Devon District Council
  • Natural England
  • North Devon Council
  • Plymouth City Council
  • South Hams District Council
  • Teignbridge District Council
  • Torbay Council
  • Torridge District Council
  • West Devon Borough Council

Wider benefits

  • Gareth Townsend (Natural England) and Ali Slade (DCC) – Air quality
  • Jo Pullin and Bridie Kennerley and Wild About Devon representatives- Connecting people and nature, communities
  • Kate Hind (DCC) – Connecting people and nature, health and wellbeing
  • Orlando Rutter and Network of Environmental Educators in Devon (NEED) Advisory Group- Connecting people and nature, education

Habitats

  • Damian Offer- orchards, greenspaces
  • Dominic Acland, Tom Dauben, Julian Payne, with support from Westcountry Rivers Trust and the Environment Agency- Freshwater habitats
  • Eleanor Ward, Kate Hind and the Devon LNRS intertidal group- Coastal Wildbelt
  • Phil Wilson and Adrian Coulston- Grasslands, heaths, moors, mires and bogs
  • Phil Wilson, Rob Wolton and the Devon LNRS farming group- Arable habitats
  • Richard Smith and Mathew Sheppard – Rocks and soils
  • Rob Wolton and the Devon Hedge Group- Hedges
  • Ross Kennerley and Deborah Elton- Woodlands

Species

  • Adrian Colston- Crickets and grasshoppers
  • Barry Henwood, Bob Heckford, Stella Beavan and Paul Buckley (Devon Moth Group) – Moths
  • Craig Renton and Olivia Cresswell (Westcountry Rivers Trust) – Fish
  • Dave Boyce- Bugs and beetles, millipedes and freshwater shrimp
  • Dave Smallshire- Dragonflies
  • Devon Intertidal group, James McGill and Mary-Rose Lane- Molluscs
  • Keith Hiscock, Kate Hind and the Devon LNRS intertidal group- Intertidal species
  • Ellie Knott with support from Devon Mammal Group- Mammals
  • Ellie Knott with support from Devon Reptiles and Amphibian Group- Reptiles and amphibians
  • Gavin Bloomfield, Helen Booker (RSPB) and Paul Buckley, with support from the Devon LNRS bird group- Birds
  • James McGill and John Walters (for Plymouth arachnids)- Spiders and harvestmen
  • Jenny Plackett and Caroline Bullman (Butterfly Conservation) – Butterflies
  • John Day – Fungi
  • Kate Hills and the Devon Invasive Species Initiative (DISI)- Invasive species
  • Mary-Rose Lane (EA), Nicky Green and James Maben- White-Clawed Crayfish
  • Mathew Shepherd (Natural England)- Soil organisms
  • Niccola Bacciu- Lichens
  • Phil Wilson and Andy Byfield- Plants
  • Rob Wolton and the Devon Fly Group- Flies
  • Ruth Testa with support from Sarah Butcher and David Hill (Devon Bat Group) and Carol Williams (Bat Conservation Trust) –  Bats
  • Sharon Pilkington – Bryophytes
  • Stephen Carroll with input from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust- Bees, ants and wasps

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