About this Strategy
Oxfordshire’s Local Nature Recovery Strategy was published on the 12 November 2025.
The purpose of the LNRS is to identify locations where the creation and/or enhancement of certain habitats would provide the greatest benefit for biodiversity and the wider environment and to identify species and biodiversity priorities for Oxfordshire.
The LNRS has four parts:
1.The Description of Strategy Area summarises Oxfordshire’s biodiversity, habitats and areas of particular importance, as well as the river catchments and underlying geology. It also outlines the opportunities, pressures and a summary of what needs to be done for biodiversity.
2.The Statement of Biodiversity Priorities has a list of the most important outcomes (priorities) to achieve the recovery of nature in Oxfordshire and a list of actions (potential measures) to achieve these. There are 40 priorities and 85 potential measures, 40 of which have been mapped on the local habitat map.
3.The Species Priorities List is a list of species that require specific additional actions that goes beyond the Statement of Biodiversity Priorities. This includes 61 species-specific measures which targets 105 species.
4.The Local Habitat Map is an interactive mapping tool which displays existing areas of Oxfordshire that are important for biodiversity as well as areas that could become particularly important for biodiversity. The biodiversity priorities are mapped and these show locations for specific habitat and species actions.
View all documents, local habitat map and user guides on the Oxfordshire County County website: Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS).