Guidance

Species Recovery Programme: projects awarded funding for 2026 to 2029

Published 8 July 2026

Applies to England

Projects awarded funding for 2026 to 2029

1. Some species are listed in the table using their scientific name because they do not have a widely used English name.
2. The locations listed in the table cover Natural England areas across England.

Project name	Target species	Lead organisation	Location
Assessments towards recovery of cicada and mole cricket	mole cricket, New Forest cicada	Natural England	Thames Solent
Assessing genetic structure of reintroduced watervole populations	water vole	Natural England	East Midlands, Thames Solent, West Anglia
Saving the tadpole shrimp	tadpole shrimp	Natural England	Wessex, Thames Solent, Sussex and Kent
Reintroducing the New Forest cicada	New Forest cicada	The Species Recovery Trust	Thames Solent
Evidenced-based conservation of threatened decomposer fungi	coral tooth, bearded tooth, oak polypore, orchard toothcrust, zoned rosette, beautiful bonnet, marsh honey fungus, sandy stiltball, fen puffball, marram oyster, hazel gloves, willow gloves	Natural England and Cardiff University	National
Fen futures: recovering rare fen Insects	southern damselfly, orange-horned green colonel, clubbed general, dark-winged soldier	Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust	Thames Solent
Arvicola project (advancing research on water voles to inform the conservation and restoration of upland areas)	water vole	Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust	Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Preventing twite extinction in England	twite	Natural England	National
Natterjack toad habitat management Winterton Dunes National Nature Reserve	natterjack toad	Natural England	Norfolk and Suffolk
Margaritifera action for rivers in Cumbria	freshwater pearl mussel	West Cumbria Rivers Trust	Cumbria
Resilience and recovery of northwest natterjack toads	natterjack toad	Natural England	Cheshire to Lancashire
Integrated Conservation Programme for the Glutinous Snail: linking ex situ assurance colonies within situ recovery and translocation	glutinous snail	British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums	National
Actioning threatened invertebrate recovery	Lundy cabbage flea beetle, Lundy cabbage, Cornish shieldbug, Anthogona Britannica, turk’s earth-centipede, blue ground beetle, horrid ground-weaver, heath grasshopper, wart-biter, field cricket, new forest shieldbug, wormwood moonshiner, field wormwood, Diastictus vulneratus, witham orb mussel	Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, East Midlands, Sussex and Kent, Norfolk and Suffolk, Thames Solent, Wessex
Red squirrel research and conservation	red squirrel	The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester, and North Merseyside	Cheshire to Lancashire
Saving Britain’s iconic swallowtail and its foodplant: a long-term conservation strategy	swallowtail, milk-parsley	Natural England	Norfolk and Suffolk, Thames Solent, West Anglia, Wessex, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Rare vascular plants of the Mendips	Cheddar pink, autumn lady’s tresses	Somerset Wildlife Trust	Wessex
Bolstering the Somerset bittern (Botarus stellaris) population	bittern	Somerset Wildlife Trust	Wessex
Grass snake (Natrix helvetica) habitat enhancement	grass snake	Froglife	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Thames Solent, West Anglia
Recovering threatened fish species across the Bristol Channel and its unlocked and locked rivers (rescue)	allis shad, twaite shad, European eel, Atlantic salmon, sea lamprey	Natural England	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, West Midlands
Thamnobryum angustifolium and T. cataractarum: clarify phylogeny and taxonomy	Derbyshire feather-moss, Yorkshire feather-moss	Natural England	East Midlands
Range expansion and habitat management for black grouse conservation	black grouse	Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust	Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire, Northumbria, East Midlands, Cumbria, Cheshire to Lancashire
Raised bog lagg restoration boosting species recovery	window- winged sedge, argent and sable, large yellow-sedge, rosy marsh moth	Natural England	Thames Solent, West Midlands, Cumbria, Cheshire to Lancashire
Merlin recovery in northeastern England	merlin	Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust	Northumbria, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Arnside & Silverdale plant recovery programme	juniper, green winged orchid, birds-eye primrose, autumn lady’s-tresses	Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape and Lancaster City Council	Cheshire to Lancashire, Cumbria
Kestrel and rodenticides	kestrel	Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust	Wessex
Saving the grey long-eared bat	grey long-eared bat	Bat Conservation Trust	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Thames Solent, Wessex
Targeted recovery actions for the northern pool frog	pool frog	Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust (ARC)	Norfolk and Suffolk
Essential research and translocation for smooth snake recovery	smooth snake	Natural England and Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust	Thames Solent, Wessex
Living on the verge – understanding the role of linear connective habitats for widespread herpetofauna	adder, grass snake, common lizard, great crested newt	Natural England and Amphibian and Reptile Groups of the UK	Norfolk and Suffolk, East Midlands, West Midlands
Cornish adders	adder	Natural England and Froglife	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Identifying the impact of recent fragmentation of common toad metapopulations	common toad	Natural England and Froglife, Amphibian and Reptile Groups of the UK	National
Saving England’s endemic hawkweeds	fisherplace gill hawkweed, baker’s hawkweed, chalice hawkweed, Cheddar hawkweed	Natural England	Cumbria, Northumbria, Wessex
National barbastelle and bechstein’s bat survey	barbastelle, Bechstein’s bat	Natural England	National
Exploring behavioural and life history responses of the European adder to recreational disturbance	adder	Natural England and University of Chester	Wessex, West Midlands
Understanding scarce vapourer moth	scarce vapourer	Yorkshire Wildlife Trust	Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk
Dorset’s heathland specialists: building resilience	wood tiger beetle, heath bee-fly, heath grasshopper, purbeck mason wasp, yellow centaury, southern damselfly, pillwort, lesser water-plantain, pondweed leafhopper, bloody spider-hunting wasp	National Trust	Wessex
Recovering the shrill carder bee at RSPB Canvey Wick	shrill carder bee	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)	West Anglia
Critically endangered European eel in southwest England: population pressures and recovery solutions (CRISIS)	European eel	Bournemouth University	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, West Midlands
Catching tope: using recreational angling competitions to drive species recovery	tope	University of Portsmouth	Thames Solent, Wessex
Using novel acoustic tools to better detect bat species at risk at wind farms	serotine, Leisler’s, nathusius’ pipistrelle	Bat Conservation Trust	National
Reviving rainforests: species recovery in England’s temperate rainforests	a tooth fungus, velvet tooth, fused tooth,Menegazzia subsimilis, Arthonia illicinella, Arthopyrenia subcerasi, Bacidia subturgidula, Mycomicrothelia atlantica, Mycoporum lacteum, Pyrenula acutispora, oil-stain parmentaria, Xerotrema quercicola, pale scalewort, sparkling signal moss, Bryoria smithii, Collema nigrescens, Fuscopannaria sampaiana, Porina rosei, Arthonia astroidestera, Melaspilea lentiginose, Agonimia octospora, Arthonia invadens, Bacidia incompta, Graphina pauciloculata, Micarea hedlundii, Multi-fruited Cryphaea, Dumortier’s liverwort, large Atlantic pocket-moss	Plantlife International	Cumbria, Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Wessex
Grassland lifelines: species recovery in England’s grasslands	big blue pinkgill, dark-purple earthtongue, date waxcap, olive earthtongue, nail fungus, Fulgensia fulgens, Lichenochora epifulgens, starry breck-lichen, scaly breck lichen, juniper, holly-fern, narrow small-reed, a lady’s mantle, English sandwort, purple milk-vetch, basil thyme, northern hawk’s-beard, red hemp-nettle, early gentian, Chiltern gentian, musk orchid, spotted cat’s-ear, wild candytuft, perfoliate penny-cress, burnt orchid, fly orchid, man orchid, pasqueflower, moon carrot, Nottingham catchfly, downy woundwort, field fleawort, flat-sedge, rare spring-sedge, mezereon	Plantlife International	East Midlands, Norfolk and Suffolk, Thames Solent, Wessex
Severn treescapes: dead wood society	noble chafer, orchard toothcrust, mistletoe marble, red-horned cardinal click beetle	Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust	West Midlands, Thames Solent
Lake District arctic charr recovery and management (LD-CHARM)	Arctic charr	Natural England and Freshwater Biological Association	Cumbria
Northern dune tiger beetle and natterjack recovery project	northern dune tiger beetle, natterjack toad	Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust (ARC)	Cumbria, Cheshire to Lancashire
Wild flowers and wax caps	bird’s-eye primrose, bird’s-eye primrose smut, date waxcap, barred tooth-striped	Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT)	Cheshire to Lancashire, Cumbria, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
ASSIST -  Atlantic salmon smolt index, supplementation, and tracking project	Atlantic salmon	Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Wessex
Assessing the impacts of PFAS and contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) on small cetaceans to better inform and prioritise mitigation actions.	common dolphin, harbour porpoise	Zoological Society of London	National
Seagrass restoration in the north west	dwarf eelgrass	Cumbria Wildlife Trust	Cheshire to Lancashire, Cumbria
A plan for recovery of the critically endangered diamond-backed dpider, Thanatus formicinus, by 2030	diamond-backed Spider	National Trust	East Midlands, Sussex and Kent
Sniffari	ringed plover, oystercatcher, little tern, nightjar, adder	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)	Norfolk and Suffolk
Predicting the future of threatened mycorrhizal fungi in the UK	gilded bolete, bronze bolete, bilious bolete, tawny bolete, pine bolete, the pretender, old rose bolete, devils bolete, a tooth fungus, velvet tooth, fused tooth, grey tooth, black tooth	Natural England and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew	Thames Solent
Understanding landscape-scale habitat requirements, ranging behaviour, demographics and potential to promote settlement using recorded song in the common nightingale, to inform and trial recommendations for landscape planning and potential offsetting of factors that limit the population outside the UK	nightingale	British Trust for Ornithology	Norfolk and Suffolk, West Anglia, Sussex and Kent
Southwest beaver recovery programme	beaver	Devon Wildlife Trust	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Securing the survival of England’s rarest ants	narrow-headed ant, erratic ant	Devon Wildlife Trust	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Restoring Desmoulin’s whorl snail: integrated captive breeding, reintroduction, and wetland recovery in Wiltshire	Desmoulin’s whorl snail	Longleat Enterprises	Wessex
A Study in scarlet: saving one of Britain’s rarest beetles, scarlet malachite	scarlet malachite beetle	Natural England	Sussex and Kent, Thames Solent, Wessex, West Anglia
Mor nature – riawilding in the Fal and Helford SAC: scaling up restoration for seagrass and oysters	eelgrass, dwarf eelgrass, common oyster, long-snouted seahorse, short-snouted seahorse	Ocean Conservation Trust	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Moss carder bee recovery in England	moss carder bee	Bumblebee Conservation Trust	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Northumbria, Sussex and Kent, Cumbria
Thames Eel Project	European eel	Thames Rivers Trust	Thames Solent
National assessment of rare notchworts	Norfolk flapwort, fen notchwort	Natural England	Cumbria, Norfolk and Suffolk, Northumbria, Thames Solent, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Promoting recovery of Surrey’s rarest invertebrates	wood (heath) tiger beetle, pondweed leafhopper, great fox-spider	Surrey Wildlife Trust	Thames Solent, Wessex
European adder – national conservation genetics	adder	Natural England	National
Restoring the common oyster	common oyster	Blue Marine Foundation	Thames Solent
From release to recovery: researching chough diet to support range expansion	chough	Wildwood Trust	Sussex and Kent
Safeguarding Britain’s native crayfish: A strategic initiative for white-clawed crayfish health and resilience	white-clawed crayfish	The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts	National
Beneath the bison: status, trends and autecology of the Blean’s rare invertebrate assemblages	Heath Fritillary, Acritus homoeopathicus, Centromerus cavernarum, Gonatium paradoxum, Pistius truncatus, Walckenaeria mitrata	Kent Wildlife Trust	Sussex and Kent
Building up beaver: enhancing population resilience and coexistence in the Stour	beaver	Kent Wildlife Trust	Sussex and Kent
Evaluation and strategic development of nest protection measures designed to improve oystercatcher breeding success	oystercatcher	Natural England and Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust	Thames Solent, Norfolk and Suffolk
Living limestones in Bristol’s Avon Gorge	round-headed leek, green-winged orchid, Bristol rock-cress, basil thyme, fly orchid, white’s whitebeam, silky wave moth, small blue, chalk carpet moth	Bristol Zoological Society	Wessex
From microhabitat to landscape – informing recovery actions for priority bat species by integrating multiscale evidence from roosting ecology and remote-sensed data	Leisler’s bat, brown long-eared bat, grey long-eared bat	Keele University	National
Wader research delivering evidence for nature recovery (WARDEN): evidence-based solutions to reduce predation and support breeding wader recovery	black-tailed godwit, redshank, lapwing, curlew, snipe	British Trust for Ornithology	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Norfolk and Suffolk, Thames Solent, West Anglia, West Midlands, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
National black-tailed godwit recovery	black-tailed godwit	Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust	Cheshire to Lancashire, Norfolk and Suffolk, Sussex and Kent, Wessex, West Anglia, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Ensuring the future of threatened moths: translocations	dark bordered beauty, large gold case-bearer, sandhill rustic	Butterfly Conservation	Cumbria, Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Norfolk and Suffolk, Sussex and Kent, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Ensuring the future of threatened moths: management	barberry carpet, netted carpet, belted beauty, yellow-ringed carpet, greenweed flat-body, greenweed tortrix, small burnet, brown bistort borer, Surrey leaf-miner, marsh carpet	Butterfly Conservation	Cheshire to Lancashire, Cumbria, Norfolk and Suffolk, Sussex and Kent, Thames Solent, Wessex, West Anglia, West Midlands, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Ensuring the future of threatened moths: autecology	Dover twist, bright wave, marsh mallow moth, betony case-bearer, shoulder-striped clover, northern bright, brown sweep (updated name is now dusky heath bagworm), heath rivulet, surrey broom case-bearer, scarce pug, scarce aspen knot-horn (updated name is now aspen knot-horn), yarrow brown, milkwort beauty, southern groundling (updated name is now southern barred groundling)	Butterfly Conservation	Cumbria, Norfolk and Suffolk, Northumbria, Sussex and Kent, Thames Solent, West Midlands, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Identifying decline drivers and recovery actions needed to reduce extinction risk of the high brown fritillary	high brown fritillary	Butterfly Conservation	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Cumbria, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Chequered skipper: establishing a self-sustaining population and expanding distribution in Rockingham Forest	chequered skipper	Butterfly Conservation	West Anglia, East Midlands
Towards trial management for whinchat	whinchat	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)	National
Lesser spotted woodpecker – influence of woodland hydrology on ecological resources and national population assessment	lesser spotted woodpecker	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)	National
Beach to the skies: a conservation sea change for beach nesting birds	little tern, ringed plover, oystercatcher, arctic tern, herring gull, eider, black-headed gull	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)	National
Recovery of our native sturgeon species	European sturgeon	Zoological Society of London	East Midlands, West Midlands, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Turtle dove national survey and interventions testing	turtle dove	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)	Norfolk and Suffolk, Sussex and Kent
Drivers of house martin population divergence	house martin	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)	National
Alchemilla project Teesdale and Weardale	starry lady’s-mantle,  clustered lady’s -mantle, velvet lady’s -mantle, large-toothed lady’s -mantle, rock lady’s -mantle	North Pennines National Landscape (Hosted by Durham County Council)	Northumbria
Vitalitees – breathing life into the Tees Estuary	common oyster	Tees Rivers Charitable Trust	Northumbria
Teign catchment Atlantic salmon recovery project	Atlantic salmon, brown (sea) trout	National Trust	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Understanding the factors affecting post-fledging survival in the declining spotted flycatcher	spotted flycatcher	Lancaster University	Cumbria
Cornwall Wildlife Trust wild beaver release project	beaver	Cornwall Wildlife Trust	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus reintroductions	ten-spotted pot beetle	Natural England	Cheshire to Lancashire, West Midlands
Rosie futures: scalable recovery actions for England’s terns and gulls	roseate tern, common tern, little tern, arctic tern, ringed plover, black-headed gull, herring gull, eider	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)	Cumbria, Norfolk and Suffolk, Northumbria, Sussex and Kent, Thames Solent, West Anglia
Great north bugs	(not listed), Welch’s money-spider, not listed, not listed, cloud-living spider	Yorkshire Wildlife Trust	Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire, Cheshire to Lancashire, Northumbria
Saving dusky-lemon	dusky-lemon sallow	Kent County Council	Sussex and Kent
Mitigating finch trichomonosis	greenfinch, hawfinch	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)	East Midlands, West Anglia
Continuing recovery of Eresus sandaliatus through conservation translocation, habitat modelling and genetic analysis	ladybird spider	Dorset Wildlife Trust	Wessex
Recovering species through England’s freshwater network	starfruit, scarce tufted-sedge, marsh stitchwort, frog-bit, frogbit smut, lesser water-plantain, round-fruited rush, greater water-parsnip	Freshwater Habitats Trust	Thames Solent, West Anglia
Wader recovery on English saltmarshes	redshank, lapwing, dunlin	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)	Cheshire to Lancashire, Cumbria
Delivering water vole recovery across southeast England	water vole	Waterlife Recovery Trust	Sussex and Kent, Thames Solent
Delivering water vole recovery across central England	water vole	Waterlife Recovery Trust	East Midlands, Thames Solent, West Anglia, West Midlands, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Assessing the decline in swallow insect prey and swallow breeding success in relation to agricultural intensification	swallow	Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust	Wessex, Thames Solent
Responding to the impacts of climate-change on six rare S41 species	Duke of Burgundy, large blue, marsh fritillary, wart-biter, burnt orchid, juniper	Royal Entomological Society	Wessex, West Midlands
Securing the future of Gentianopsis ciliata: integrated conservation through mycorrhizal symbiosis and translocation trials	fringed gentian	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew	Thames Solent
Willow tit - building a national recovery strategy	willow tit	Natural England	Cheshire to Lancashire, Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, East Midlands, Northumbria, West Midlands
Identifying breeding, migration and wintering habitat requirements of ring ouzel	ring ouzel	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)	Cheshire to Lancashire, Cumbria, East Midlands
Fen ragwort and fen violet recovery – years 4 to 6	fen violet, fen ragwort	Natural England	Norfolk and Suffolk, East Midlands
Ghost orchid years 2 to 3 – detection dogs and eDNA	ghost orchid	Natural England	Thames Solent, West Midlands
Resurrection of Bath sedge (aka Davall’s sedge) Carex davalliana	Davall’s sedge	Natural England	Wessex
The diet of greater horseshoe bats and the impact of climate change on their prey	greater horseshoe bat	Vincent Wildlife Trust	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Sussex and Kent, Wessex, West Midlands
Reddish buff moth project	reddish buff	Natural England	Thames Solent
Champions of the chalk: improving the fortunes of eight chalk specialists	long-horned bee, straw belle, fiery clearwing, musk orchid, late spider-orchid, man orchid, lady orchid, bedstraw broomrape	Dover District Council (White Cliffs Countryside Partnership)	Sussex and Kent
Enabling lichen recovery	Melaspilea amota, Biatoridium monasteriense, Bryoria nadvornikiana, Enterographa sorediata, ciliate strap-lichen, Leptogium cochleatum,Porina hibernica, Ramonia nigra, Rinodina flavosoralifera, Roccella fuciformis, Roccella phycopsis, Schismatomma graphidioides, Sticta canariensis, golden hair-lichen, Parmeliella testacea, eagle’s claws, Toninia physaroides, Nephroma tangeriens	Natural England	National
Nottinghamshire water vole recovery – the final frontier	water vole	Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust	East Midlands
Saving the green fewel: tansy beetle recovery action	tansy beetle	St Nicks (Friends of St Nicholas Fields)	West Anglia, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Montagu’s harrier Circus pygargus reinforcement - feasibility stage 2	Montagu’s harrier	Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation	Wessex
Farm habitats for swift recovery via insect prey abundance to understand swift foraging behaviour and diet breadth	common swift	Rothamsted Research	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Norfolk and Suffolk, West Anglia
Forest of Selwood dormouse project	hazel dormouse	Forest of Selwood CIO	Wessex
Threatened plants programme – making a move for plant recovery	childing pink, deptford pink, dwarf milkwort, field eryngo, field gentian, heath lobelia, marsh clubmoss, starved wood-sedge	The Species Recovery Trust	National
Recovering Yorkshire’s priority invertebrates	malham sedge, mire pill beetle, thorne pin-palp, green barred colonel, Irish major	The Species Recovery Trust	Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Rays of tope: evidencing critical reproductive habitats for tope and undulate ray using a multi-method approach	tope, undulate ray	University of Plymouth	Cheshire to Lancashire, Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Sussex and Kent, Thames Solent, Wessex
Understanding and addressing drivers of woodcock decline	Eurasian woodcock	Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust	East Midlands, Norfolk and Suffolk, Thames Solent, West Midlands
From data to action: comprehensive assessment and conservation planning of English pelagic shark species	blue shark, porbeagle, tope	University of Exeter	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, West Anglia, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Lady’s slipper recovery	lady’s slipper	Chester Zoo	Cumbria, Northumbria, Cheshire to Lancashire, East Midlands
Red helleborine recovery	red helleborine, white helleborine	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew	Thames Solent, West Midlands, Wessex
Preparing for beavers across the Humber catchment	beaver	Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust	East Midlands, West Midlands, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Lake District Arctic alpine restoration project	juniper, forked spleenwort, holly-fern, oblong woodsia, glaucous meadow-grass, pyramidal bugle, borrowdale hawkweed, alpine catchfly, wood bitter-vetch, shrubby cinquefoil, downy willow, petty whin, montane eyebright, a lady’s mantle, hairy stonecrop	National Trust	Cumbria
Bringing back burbot	burbot	Norfolk Rivers Trust	East Midlands, Norfolk and Suffolk, West Midlands, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
​​Native species recovery hubs (NSRH)	wart-biter, Chrysolina marginata, Cryptocephalus biguttatus, Cryptocephalus frontalis, rock-rose pot beetle, blue pepper-pot beetle, Cryptocephalus querceti, six-spotted pot beetle, tadpole shrimp, mole cricket, northern dune tiger beetle, lesser silver water beetle, glutinous snail, pashford pot beetle, Desmoulin’s whorl snail	Chester Zoo	Cheshire to Lancashire, Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, East Midlands, Norfolk and Suffolk, Sussex and Kent, Thames Solent, Wessex, West Anglia, West Midlands
Using at sea data to map the exposure of common dolphins and harbour porpoises to ship noise in the western English Channel.	common dolphin, harbour Porpoise	University of Plymouth	Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Sussex and Kent, Thames Solent, Wessex
Recovery of the critically endangered crystal moss animal (Lophopus crystallinus): phase II – translating research into practical conservation interventions	crystal moss animal	Lincolnshire Chalk Stream Project  (Lincolnshire County Council)	East Midlands
Recognising Scots pine (SP) as an English native – years 3 to 5	Scots pine	Natural England	Northumbria, Cumbria