Published:
5:30 AM August 4, 2021
Updated:
6:04 AM August 4, 2021
The new Breckland Farmers Wildlife Network covers 100,000 acres of a landscape which is home to more than 12,800 species
- Credit: Mike Page
A vast network of Breckland farmers is hoping to become a national template for how wildlife conservation can be achieved within an important agricultural landscape.
Believed to be the largest farmland cluster in lowland UK, it aims to protect and enhance the special wildlife of the Brecks, guided by a UEA-led biodiversity audit in 2010 which catalogued 12,843 species - many of which are found nowhere else in the country.
The stone curlew is one of the many wildlife species associated with the Brecks