The site is currently being updated and the new site will be available in early 2026.
Throughout 2025 Sussex Nature Partnership has been a key partner in the preparation of the Local Nature Recovery Strategies for Sussex and an update on the strategies can be found here.
More details on how the Nature Partnership will support delivery of these strategies will be shared in early 2026 via the updated website.
In the meantime, this page holds archived information about the Biodiversity Opportunity Areas for Sussex which can still be accessed below.
Bumblebee © Darin Smith/Sussex Wildlife Trust
Since 2009 Sussex Nature Partnership and our partners have carried out work across the South East to identify Biodiversity Opportunity Areas (BOAs) as a method for identifying potential ecological networks.
A BOA consists of a spatial concentration of already recognised and protected sites for conservation (foundation sites) inside a boundary that also includes undesignated priority habitat sites - all of which have common and contiguous geological, soil, hydrological and topographical characteristics to those of the foundation sites.
BOAs remain relevant across the South East as a means of understanding where efforts to conserve, enhance and connect protected sites and priority habitats can be targeted. They are therefore likely to form a key component of Local Nature Recovery Strategies. Seventy Five BOAs were identified for Sussex and published in 2009 by Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre. The location and brief description of each can be found below.
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In 2019, the partnership published a ‘Natural Capital Investment Strategy for Sussex’. This explained the importance of the natural capital of Sussex and set out a range of actions required to both protect and enhance our natural capital assets for their own sake – and for the benefits and services they provide. This document guides the priorities of Sussex Nature Partnership and informs the focus of its working groups.
Natural Capital Investment Strategy 2019_Summary