A new environmental strategy aims to turn the tide on decades of biodiversity loss.
The Local Nature Recovery Strategy has been published for East Sussex and Brighton & Hove, shaped by input from more than 2,000 local people.
It sets out eight principles, 24 priorities and more than 100 practical actions.
These are designed to help create, enhance and connect habitats in the areas that would bring the greatest benefits for wildlife and people.
The full strategy is available at SussexNatureRecovery.org.uk.
Councillor Peter Griffiths, East Sussex County Council’s lead member for environment, said: "I wholeheartedly support these measures to increase the numbers and diversity of our native species, and I would love to see our rivers and sea return to the water quality they once enjoyed.
"We are extremely lucky to live in a county with such a rich natural heritage, and this strategy will go a long way towards restoring, creating and enhancing habitats and species including the spiked rampion plant and Adonis blue butterfly."
Actions in the strategy support improved management of woodlands and hedgerows to benefit the hazel dormouse, as well as wetland creation for water voles around Pett, Rye Levels and Lewes Brooks.
Improving sand dune habitats at Camber Sands is also a key target.
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