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Hanson is celebrating 20 years of its wetland project with the RSPB, with the announcement that a further 80 ha. of restored land from Hanson’s Needingworth site in Cambridgeshire will be transferred to the Ouse Fen nature reserve.
Hanson’s partnership project with the RSPB is the largest planned nature conservation restoration scheme of its kind in Europe and, once complete, the reserve will incorporate the UK’s largest created reedbed – an extremely rare habitat – much of which has been lost in Britain.
The announcement of the handover of the additional land comes on World Wetlands Day and brings RSPB Ouse Fen to 298 ha., nearly three square kilometres, the size of 417 football pitches. By the time the project is complete in 2030, this is expected to more than double.