Working with partners, Nature After Minerals is here to offer and share best-practice advice on biodiversity-led minerals restoration.
Habitats
The creation of a whole range of priority habitat through minerals restoration can help enhance biodiversity; linking and buffering existing conservation hotspots and creating wildlife corridors across the landscape in the process.

Rock samphire Crithmum maritimum in shingle, Pilsey Island RSPB Reserve, Hampshire, September 2015

Otters, Lutra lutra, lying under tree
Species
Biodiversity-led minerals restoration can help protect and recover species of national and international conservation concern.
Planning Advice
Positive and ambitious minerals planning at a strategic level can do much to help ensure biodiversity gain at a landscape scale.

Children using magnifying glass - by Phil Barnes (rspb-images.com)
Contact us
natureafterminerals@rspb.org.uk
Nature After Minerals, RSPB,
The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire,
SG19 2DL