Wildlife and Important Nature Areas in Brighton and Hove

➡️ MAPS OF SITES              LWS Data as .KML file LGS Data as .KML file (for Google Earth)

➡️ MAPS OF SITES                LWS Data as .SHP files LGS Data as .SHP files (for  GIS import)

How to be involved 

•  BrightonWildlife has the website and social media presence to share information about the Local Wildlife Sites and Local Geological Sites across Brighton and Hove. Help is needed now to maintain this information resource. Also we can share it with other people and groups interesting in promoting Local Biodiversity and Geodiversity.

• If you interested in helping and can commit an hour a month to maintaining this high quality information resource, please get in touch by social media or by using the 'Contact BrightonWildlife' form below.

Background

• This page is deliberately short. People seem unable to read detailed information now. There are hyperlinks for more details on specific points.

• Many ‘influencers’, especially commercial businesses, their advertising departments and supporters have no connection with nature.

• Nature is considered to be ‘A constraint on development’ (by the influencers). This idea of a restriction by nature was even included in the BHCC ‘Core Strategy – proposed amendments paper’ (June 2009). 

A healthy environment provides a third of Sustainable Development foundations!

• The influencers are much happier with the term ‘Ecosystem Services’, which sees nature only for its financial value metric.

• Rather than corrupting thinking with the word ‘Value’ we can use the term ‘Quality’. There are many qualities in life which are intrinsically important to many of us: truth, health, love, 'a sense of purpose'. You would not need to place a purely economic ‘value’ on them.

• Many people have an emotional, even spiritual connection with nature  #Biophilia 

• Over 70 years after the ‘Nature Conservancy’ was established in Britain, there has been a continuing depletion of nature. Few of us have seen eggs in a bird nest. We cannot identify tree species, plants or wild creatures. This was common knowledge two generations ago when 'nature study' was taught at school.

• Many of us today cannot differentiate between semi-natural areas and species-poor commercial land.

• Commercial businesses continue to exploit and destroy the natural environment #Ecocide - yet many people don’t even see it happening!

Solution

• Find your local wildlife sites (there is a Maps Of Sites link on this page to help with this).

• See and experience nature, even in urban and suburban area. Across Brighton and Hove ‘nature’ includes the geological and geomorphological world which underlies the soil, roads and buildings above it.

• Learn how nature changes over the seasons in your local wildlife sites.

• Speak with other people about the sites you know.

• Add your knowledge and sightings to national wildlife recording systems. It’s now very easy online.

• Help to protect and enhance the natural qualities in your area.

Thanks for your interest in local nature.

➡️ MAPS OF SITES              LWS Data as .KML file LGS Data as .KML file (for Google Earth)

➡️ MAPS OF SITES                LWS Data as .SHP files LGS Data as .SHP files (for GIS import)

Last updated:  February 2025

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LINKS 

➡️ Sites Considered by BHCC and results 

➡️ NATIONAL 'Selecting Local Wildlife Sites' GUIDANCE

➡️ NATIONAL 'Selecting Local Geological Sites' GUIDANCE

➡️ FORMER 'City Wildlife' website details  www.citywildlife.org.uk 

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