This report presents the outputs from the second HERO workshop, which was attended virtually by 23 participants on the 20th of September 2021. The inception workshop in July 2021 identified seven priorities for nature recovery across Oxfordshire, which involved planning,mapping, monitoring, managing connectivity,public engagement, financing, and developing a project pipeline. This second workshop focuses on the second of those priorities:Mapping, assessment and tracking of land availability and nature recovery activities. Prior to the workshop, the HERO team (Alison,Michaela and Wallerand) had gathered some preliminary information on 42 nature recovery initiatives in Oxfordshire. At the workshop this preliminary data collection was presented and discussed, and we gathered feedback and insights on what additional information should be collected in subsequent stages, and how this data could be analysed to feed into effective nature recovery strategies.
Five themes emerged from the discussion surrounding the challenges posed by adequate and reliable land mapping:
- Extending, refining and streamlining the data collected
- Mapping land ownership
- Including farmers in the mapping effort
- Interactions between nature, climate and other issues
- Mapping change over time.
