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Landscape scale recovery projects share £12m development funding

by Karma Loveday

Twenty-two projects will share £12m in development grants after being successful in the first phase of the Landscape Recovery Fund.


Each project covers an area of between 500 and 5,000 hectares, and the majority involve groups of land managers and farmers working together to deliver a range of environmental benefits across farmed and rural landscapes. Defra said collectively, the successful projects aim to restore nearly 700km of rivers and protect and enhance 263 species such as water vole, otter, pine marten, lapwing, great crested newt, European eel and marsh fritillary.


The winning projects were:

  • adapting the Levels

  • Adur River Restoration project

  • the Axe Landscape Partnership

  • Breckland Farmers Wildlife Network Project

  • Boothby Wildland Project

  • Darent Valley

  • East Dartmoor

  • Eelscapes: restoring the Severn Vale’s wetland mosaics

  • the Enfield Chase Restoration Project

  • Greater Frampton Vision

  • Holnicote River Corridors

  • Killerton Three Rivers Landscape Recovery Project

  • Lake District Eastern Fells

  • Leven Carrs Wetland project

  • North Norfolk: Wilder, Wetter, Better for Nature

  • North East Cotswolds Farmer Cluster Project

  • The South Pennines Park – Nature’s Holme Landscape Recovery

  • Wareham Arc

  • WaLOR (Waveney and Little Ouse Headwaters) project

  • The Three Dales Project

  • Upper Duddon Landscape Recovery

  • Wigan Greenheart.

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