Bringing Britain’s wildlife back to life
A national network of wildlife centres and habitat corridors, restoring species and ecosystems across the British Isles.
Restoring the wildlife of the British Isles
Britain is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. The Wildlife Restoration framework sets out a positive, practical answer: a national network of wildlife centres and connected habitat corridors, designed to bring species and ecosystems back across the British Isles.
This is restoration with a real plan and real funding behind it — not a vague aspiration. It links recovering habitats together so wildlife can move and thrive, and it brings people closer to nature through centres open to communities and schools.
Like the wider environment framework, it is built for the long term, weighing every decision against the world inherited by future generations.
The state of nature today
The framework responds to a widely shared concern.
- Severe long-term decline in many native species.
- Habitats fragmented and disconnected.
- Limited public access to thriving nature.
- Restoration efforts under-resourced and piecemeal.
- Short-term decisions outweighing ecological recovery.
How DD&SA approaches wildlife
A connected network
Wildlife centres and habitat corridors linked so species can move, mix, and recover across the country.
Funded restoration
A serious capital programme behind the ambition — restoration backed by real resources.
People and nature
Centres that reconnect communities and schools with thriving, accessible wildlife.
Long-term recovery
Ecological recovery planned across the decades it genuinely takes to achieve.
What the Wildlife framework guarantees
Species recovery
A committed, funded effort to reverse the decline of native wildlife.
Habitats reconnected
Fragmented landscapes linked into a living, national network.
Nature for everyone
Public access to thriving wildlife as part of everyday life.
How assemblies handle this
The wildlife network is coordinated nationally for coherence, but rooted locally: Regional and Local Assemblies shape centres and corridors in their areas, within a national restoration strategy set by the National Assembly. Ecological evidence guides every stage, and the generational-impact test ensures recovery is never sacrificed for short-term gain.
Read the full Wildlife Restoration Framework
This page is a plain-English summary. The complete framework — with the detail, the evidence, and the financial architecture — is part of the openly published DD&SA corpus.