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Published: July 2024

Norfolk and Suffolk are home to a great variety of wildlife habitats, including coastal marshes, ancient woodlands, heaths, and fens each supporting a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna.

Many of the locations where these and other important habitats occur have been officially designated as important sites for the protection and conservation of nature.These have been recorded in an ‘Areas of Particular Importance for Biodiversity’ map for each county.

The maps are informing the next stages in the development of our Local Nature Recovery Strategies and where we could target nature recovery measures. For example, identifying suitable areas for creating new habitat or improving, expanding and linking existing important habitats.

This is the first step in developing an ecological network across our counties where there are more habitats to support biodiversity and our habitats for nature are bigger, better and more joined up.

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