MONMOUTHSHIRE County Council’s Cabinet has approved two landmark strategies, the Local Nature Recovery Action Plan and the Green Infrastructure Strategy.

These strategies form part of the nature recovery pillar for the council’s Climate and Nature Emergency response, aiming to reverse biodiversity decline, enhance ecosystem resilience and promote sustainable land use across the county.

Monmouthshire’s Nature Recovery Action Plan is a simple guide to help protect and restore nature in Monmouth.

Encouraging people and communities to get involved and act, so together we can care for nature and help it thrive.

The local NRAP takes the big ideas from the national and regional plans and turns them into simple, local actions.

These are things we can do in our communities and local nature sites to help nature recover.

The Green Infrastructure Strategy sets out the council’s approach to enhancing biodiversity and increasing ecosystem resilience through Green Infrastructure.

It outlines the council’s approach to improving health and wellbeing outcomes and outlines the council’s approach to improving health and wellbeing outcomes and implementing climate action through large-scale projects and partnerships.

The development of these strategies was guided by extensive public consultation. This included a campaign which launched at the Usk Show in the autumn of 2024.

The council thanks residents, businesses, community groups and stakeholders who shared their views on the climate and nature emergency and how the council can support local action.

Cllr Catrin Maby, Cabinet Member for Climate Change and the Environment, said: “The process we followed to develop these strategies highlighted the importance of collective action in addressing the climate emergency.”

“The council will now begin implementing the strategies, developing detailed action plans, and collaborating with partners such as Gwent Green Grid partnership, living levels partnership, and Wye Valley national landscape.”