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By Press Association 2021
Fleet Moss restoration as part of the Great North Bog scheme led by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (Yorkshire Peat Partnership/PA)
A raft of new projects that store carbon and restore habitats have been unveiled by the Wildlife Trusts as part of efforts to tackle the climate and nature crises.
The 12 schemes include improving fragmented wetlands across four counties in England and Wales to pave the way for reintroducing beavers, restoring peatland in five counties and expanding saltmarsh along the Essex coast.
The schemes by the coalition of 46 nature charities employ “nature based solutions”, using landscapes and habitats to tackle climate emissions and impacts at the same time as helping to reverse declines in the natural world.
Cambridgeshire wildlife to benefit from first of its kind project protecting chalk grassland butterflies cambridge-news.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cambridge-news.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Huge new 25,000 South West Cambridgeshire development could dry up county s streams
The chalk streams are hubs of biodiversity, but they could be gone if nothing is done about huge developments
Chalk streams in Cambridgeshire are drying out rapidly. (Image: Monica Hone)
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