Monday 16th March 2026 Water Lane Farm Recently, MEAS brought together landowners, farmers and environmental professionals for an event hosted by Water Lane Farm, Knowsley focused on nature recovery opportunities for landowners and farmers. A key message throughout the event was clear: nature recovery can be delivered alongside productive farming, working estates and landholdings,...
Merseyside EAS and Merseyside BioBank were joined by Friends of Childwall Woods to record wildlife as part of the City Nature Challenge. This was the start of a busy weekend of recording as part of the global challenge. Events are taking place across Merseyside .Come and join the City Nature Challenge in Liverpool City Region...
The Nature Conservation Strategy wants to work with local groups, communities, and landowners to aim to make the Sefton Coast healthier. As part of this refresh, we are holding a series of talks about the Sefton Coast from late August to mid September. To find out more visit our Consultation and Engagement Webpage
As part of the ongoing work on the Local Nature Recovery Strategy LCR are holding two workshops at Mann Island, Liverpool on the 7th June and 21st June ( Landowner only) The workshops will be looking at where the strategy priorities (objectives) could be delivered across the region, to achieve the ambitions of the LNRS. The workshop on the...
Wednesday 17th April 2024, 6.00pm – 7.30 pm As part of the ongoing work on the Local Nature Recovery Strategy within the Liverpool City Region, we are holding an online workshop on the 17th April. This will follow a similar structure to the in-person workshop held on the 18th March, if you attended that, you do not need...
The MEAS Team were recently invited to help with fruit tree planting at Kindling Farm in Tarbock Green as part of their agri-forestry farm. Kindling Farm is part of the Liverpool City Region Farmland Species Recovery Project run by the Merseyside Environmental Advisory Service (MEAS). This project works collaboratively with farmers, encouraging regenerative practices for...
MEAS has been awarding grant funding from NE for the Farmland Species Recovery Project. This project seeks to work collaboratively with farmers encouraging sustainable and regenerative practices for the benefit of wildlife and people targeting marginal, underused and less productive land to trial and deliver species recovery interventions. The commencement of the Farmland Project represents...
Defra has published new guidance and a draft template for Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) in England. Following testing with stakeholders, Defra has published the draft biodiversity gain plan template, alongside guidance and information on the biodiversity gain plan. Defra has however been keen to emphasise that this is a draft biodiversity gain plan template and...
The countdown to mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) has begun, which will come into force in November 2023. BNG is an approach to developments, that aims to leave the natural environment in a measurably better state than before, this is measured in biodiversity units calculated by the DEFRA metric. In the first instance, developments should...
The final Visitor Survey report commissioned by LCRCA and West Lancs BC has now been published. The report can be found hereLCR and West Lancs visitor survey report – final v3 Report Body LCR and West Lancs visitor survey report – final v3-Appendices