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The Wildlife Trusts have a vision to create a network of landscape scale projects throughout the UK. Together these projects will create ‘A Living Landscape’, transforming the future for wildlife and providing a more sustainable future for communities rich in opportunities for learning and enjoyment.

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    We are at a turning point in the way we manage our environment. Agriculture is beginning to encompass stewardship of the countryside, planning policy is embracing creative conservation, climate change demands sustainable water management solutions, and we are realising how high quality, natural surroundings improve our economy, health and well-being. The Wildlife Trusts vision for A Living Landscape is bigger, bolder and longer term in its thinking than has ever been set out before. With responsibility for many of the most important wildlife sites in the UK, we have carried out some of the most ambitious wildlife restoration projects seen in the past ten years. Working across whole river catchments we are knitting together robust habitat complexes from entire tracts of upland, woodland and grassland, to wetlands and coastal grazing marsh. We aim to re-connect the fragmented habitats in our towns and countryside to transform our landscape within a generation. This is our image of the future; living landscapes that support, provide, inspire and renew. Through them we can halt biodiversity loss, create truly sustainable communities, reconstruct a resilient countryside able to adapt to climate change, and enable business that grows as a result of, rather than at the expense of, a healthy environment. The Wildlife Trusts have identified 150 separate large-scale projects, from the mountains of Scotland, Wales and N Ireland, across the breadth and diversity of the English countryside, which will transform the landscape and quality of life of local people. To ensure the success of these projects requires an investment in high quality project development and management by people who know their local area and its wildlife intimately. We are seeking an investment of £10m which will pay for 40 project officers for a period of five years to take forward the early development and delivery of a selection of these projects.

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  • Animals Animals
  • Environment/Conservation Environment/​Conservation
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Women & Girls Women & Girls
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)
    • Other Other