East Dartmoor Landscape Recovery Area

Biodiversity net gain initiative creating >500 biodiversity units for sale

• Overview

  The East Dartmoor Landscape Recover Area (EDLRA) will be delivering nature recovery across this incredible landscape, home to our temperate rainforest and a diversity of extraordinary lichens and mosses.

  A collection of project partners will enhance this landscape, including Dartmoor National Park Authority, Devon Wildlife Trust, National Trust, Natural England, Woodland Trust, and other local landowners.

  Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is one component of this significant nature recovery project. A wide range of biodiversity units will be generated from the creation and enhancement of habitats here.
  
  This BNG scheme is currently in development, and we are seeking expressions of interest from developers interested in securing off-site BNG here.

• Developers can secure biodiversity units for the following habitat types:

  • Upland hay meadow of very high distinctiveness
  • Purple moor grass and rush pasture of very high distinctiveness
  • Upland fens of very high distinctiveness
  • Upland heathland of high distinctiveness
  • Lowland mixed deciduous woodland of high distinctiveness
  • Wet woodland of high distinctiveness
  • Upland oak wood of high distinctiveness
  • Traditional orchard of high distinctiveness
  • Species-rich native hedgerow with trees of high distinctiveness
  • Grassland of medium distinctiveness
  • Mixed scrub of medium distinctiveness
  • Pond of medium distinctiveness
  • Woodland of medium distinctiveness
  • Rural trees of medium distinctiveness
  • Hedgerows of medium distinctiveness