Landscape scale recovery projects share £12m development funding
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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