The Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) aims to restore and enhance biodiversity across the three areas by coordinating action between councils, landowners, farmers, conservation groups, and local communities. The LNRS sets out how everyone can contribute to making space for nature and tackling major environmental challenges. Ultimately it is about creating more, better and better-connected space for nature across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. The LNRS has selected 100 Indicator Species to serve as ecological barometers for the county’s habitats. These diverse species  will help monitor the success of the Strategy by reflecting the condition of key habitats such as woodlands, grasslands, wetlands, freshwater sites and urban green spaces. The Indicator Species represent a sample of biodiversity that will help us to monitor the state of nature in our area. We can all contribute to the LNRS by recording these species on NatureSpot whenever we come across them. Please look out for these species and submit your records.

You can get a list of all the indicator species here.

Mammals
Hedgehog	Water Vole	Harvest Mouse	Water Shrew	Polecat
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Birds
House Sparrow	Swift	Barn Owl	House Martin	Skylark
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Linnet	Yellowhammer
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Reptiles
Common Lizard	Grass Snake	Slow-worm
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Amphibians / Fish
Frog (spawn/tadpoles)	Toad (spawn/tadpoles)	Bullhead
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Butterflies
Small Tortoiseshell	Wall	Dingy Skipper	Grizzled Skipper	Green Hairstreak
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Moths
Poplar Hawk-moth	The Forester	Beautiful China-mark	Latticed Heath
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Beetles
Cockchafer	Lesser Stag Beetle	Green Tiger Beetle	Violet Ground-beetle	Glow-worm
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Water Ladybird	14 Spot Ladybird
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Bees, Wasps & Sawflies
Hairy-footed Flower-bee	Red-tailed Bumblebee	Hornet	Bedeguar Gall
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Giant Horntail	Figwort Sawfly
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Flies
Banded General	Violet Black-legged Robberfly	Tachinid Fly	Blotch-winged Hoverfly	Bumblebee Hoverfly
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Grasshoppers / Dragonflies / Bugs
Common Green Grasshopper	Dark Bushcricket	Slender Groundhopper	Broad-bodied Chaser	Blue Shieldbug
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Molluscs
Ash-grey Slug	Tree Slug	Copse Snail	Swan Mussel
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Arachnids / Millipedes / Leeches
Four-spotted Orb-weaver	Fork-palped Harvestman	Striped Millipede	Horse Leech
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Wildflowers / Grasses / Ferns
Yellow-wort	Viper's Bugloss	Blue Fleabane	Mouse-ear Hawkweed	Heath Spotted Orchid
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Heath Bedstraw	Tormentil	Pyramidal Orchid	Small Scabious	Field Scabious
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Meadow Vetchling	Lesser spearwort	Ragged Robin	Flowering Rush	Water Mint
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Water Starwort agg.	Broad-leaved pondweed	Water Crowfoot agg.	Wood Sage	Greater Stitchwort
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Climbing Corydalis	Bluebell	Broad-leaved Helleborine	Moschatel	Herb Paris
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Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage	Wood Sorrel	Sweet Woodruff	Wood Anemone	Ramsons
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Square-stalked St John's-wort	Heath Speedwell	Heather	Bilberry
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Lesser Bulrush	Quaking Grass	Shield Fern agg.
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Mosses
Sphagnum agg.	Common Tamarisk-moss
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Fungi
Magpie Inkcap	Stinkhorn	Waxcap agg.
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