HWT said the funds will, among other things, allow them to recruit new staff and improve public access and education at nature reserves within Herefordshire’s Lugg Valley wetlands. A key area of work for the trust is to map, support and improve places designated ‘Local Wildlife Sites’. These are wildlife-rich habitats, usually in private ownership, with landowners often unaware of these places’ importance. HWT will work with project partners Herefordshire Meadows to survey and support new sites through management plans across the county. HWT said the funding also allows them to continue and extend their work with landowners, supporting work along the Yazor Brook in Hereford and funding a farm advisor to help farmers in making their farms more wildlife friendly and sustainable.
FUNDING of more than £712,000 has been awarded to a partnership programme with the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust(YDMT) to create wildflower meadows on a large scale. The money is part of the government’s £80 million Green Recovery Challenge Fund which will aim to reverse the alarming decline that has seen 97 per cent of meadows eradicated and the remaining three per cent teetering on the brink of extinction. The YDMT will work with the Forest of Bowland AONB Partnership. Sarah Robinson Forest of Bowland AONB Farming and Wildlife Officer said: “We’re very excited by this news of a grant ward to the Meadow Makers project. The grant will help us to continue the joint project delivery in the Forest of Bowland into a tenth ‘Hay Time’ season; working alongside Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust to restore and enhance upland hay meadows and species rich grassland.”
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