Accessing and connecting with nature has been shown to have significant positive benefits for health and wellbeing. It can also help to increase awareness and appreciation of nature. This in turn may increase the likelihood of wanting to protect and conserve nature. Increasing the provision of high quality green-blue spaces in our towns and cities and providing opportunities for communities to access and connect with nature can therefore provide many multi-benefits for both people and wildlife.

The CaBA Health and Wellbeing evidence base can help identify areas where catchment partnership actions could have the greatest health and wellbeing benefits for populations that are most in need.

It highlights areas with:

• The greatest levels of obesity, inactivity and illnesses associated with obesity/inactivity;
• The greatest levels of depression;
• The lowest levels of publicly accessible green and blue spaces;
• Other factors that might be influencing people’s health and wellbeing, or that could affect their likelihood of making use of green/blue spaces.

Watch the introductory webinar to find out more and follow the links below to open the interactive mapping portal and to access the datasets.