A brand-new task, co-funded by DEFRA and Natural England, will bring back and link heathland websites in western Surrey.
The Heathlands Connections in Surrey is among the 6 Nature Recovery Projects supported by £7.4 million financing. The brand-new plan intends to improve, bring back and link heathland in the western most area of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) landscape.
This task will link designated websites, such as Thursley, Hankley and Frensham Commons Special Protection Area, with surrounding heathlands. Collectively, the task intends to take on difficulties such as environment destruction, disruption to ground-nesting birds and the emerging hazard of more regular and more terrible wildfires.
The brand-new plan intends to improve, bring back and link heathland in the western most area of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The Surrey Hills AONB presently sees roughly 30 million visitors yearly due to its distance to London and other substantial metropolitan locations. This task will produce and provide a ‘gold requirement’ sustainable entertainment strategy to motivate those checking out the landscape to utilize active travel, enhance gain access to and, for that reason, produce a much better connection to nature.
Funded by Natural England and led by the Heathland Connections collaboration, the task intends to bring back natural procedures and make the landscape more resistant. These special environments are hot-spots for essential, and unusual, bird, reptile, dragonfly and plant types.
Allison Potts, Thames Solent location supervisor for Natural England, said: “We’re actually delighted to launch our Nature Recovery Project here throughout the renowned heathland of west Surrey, an uncommon and essential landscape and environment.
“This task is everything about connections. It’s linking the heathlands together, so they have a more particular future. It likewise links the landscape with individuals that live or go to here; linking partners that work here to attain a larger effect together and linking in the interesting, brand-new methods to money biodiversity and green facilities enhancements.
“Doing so will help us attain enthusiastic nature healing development in a location that matters for individuals and wildlife.”
