A LEADING North-East wildlife charity is to create several jobs after being awarded more than £400,000 of Government funding to deliver a “landmark” conservation programme. Durham Wildlife Trust’s “Healing Nature” initiative – protecting and restoring important habitats across 20 wildlife sites – is one of the first environmental projects to be awarded a grant from the Government’s £80m Green Recovery Challenge Fund. The Trust has been awarded £407,300 to carry out vital work at the sites in Gateshead, Sunderland and South Tyneside. Healing Nature is one of the first wave of 68 projects to benefit from the Green Recovery Challenge Fund, established by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and administered by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, in partnership with Natural England and the Environment Agency.
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