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As we become more aware of how climate change is impacting wildlife we are starting to address how we work. This project is looking at landscape scale solutions to landscape scale problems. By creating “green highways” for wildlife we hope to be able to create opportunities for wildlife to survive in an unpredictable future, allowing wildlife to migrate more freely and making wildlife in Wales more robust and able to cope with the changing climate.
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Phase one of the project involves an audit of the landholding we already have and an audit of the surrounding areas. It will also involve a mapping exercise (which has been started) to look at how reserves can be linked up with either our own reserves or other organisations reserves through a variety of landholders. We will build on the work which we have started at a South and West Wales level with farmers, schools and businesses to raise awareness of the project and to start negotiating partnerships to create wildlife havens within their land. We would use our Wildlife Partnerships project to work with business for example. Phase two of the project will be the creation of a network of “green corridors”; this may be water courses, hedgerows, small plantations, unimproved grasslands, wetlands etc, which will link up the identified reserves. This will allow wildlife a variety of routes in which to flourish and spread ensuring a greater diversity in the gene pool and greater opportunities for different species to survive. This project will involve a lot of work with a huge spectrum of people and we will utilise some of the contacts we already have, i.e. work done through the Wildlife Partnerships project at a Wales wide level with business, or through our farmlands project. We anticipate that this will also roll out at a Wales wide level through the Wildlife Trusts Wales partnership.