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How external funding is helping Natural England's work

Find out how grants from the EU and the Heritage Lottery Fund help projects in the natural environment.

From:
Natural England
Published
4 July 2017
Last updated
23 June 2021 — See all updates

Current projects

Projects with their own website:

  • Back from the Brink - to save 20 species of England’s wildlife from extinction and help others on the road to recovery
  • Bats in churches - to provide innovative solutions to support the use and maintenance of churches which have bat roosts
  • Dynamic Dunescapes - to restore sand dunes in England and Wales for the benefit of people, communities and wildlife
  • Great Fen - to create a fenland landscape around 2 National Nature Reserves in Cambridgeshire
  • Hoveton Great Broad restoration - to restore a Norfolk broad to a species-rich wildlife haven
  • Isles of Scilly seabird recovery - to control the islands’ rat population and protect their seabirds
  • LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES project - to improve the condition of at-risk seagrass and maerl bed habitats in 5 project areas, and reduce the negative impact of recreational boating activities, such as mooring and anchoring
  • Little Tern recovery - to restore and create little tern habitat and protect colonies for the future
  • Meres and Mosses landscape partnership scheme - to improve the value of this wetland landscape for the people and wildlife that live in and around it in Shropshire and Cheshire
  • Natural Course - to improve and protect water quality in north-west England
  • Rapid Reduction of Nutrients in Transitional Waters - to enhance and protect coastal and transitional water ecosystems in France, the Channel and England
  • Restoring the Humberhead Peatlands - to increase the area of peat bog habitat under restoration, improve rare habitats and support research and monitoring
  • Revitalising Redesdale - to protect and enhance the landscape and wildlife around the River Rede in Northumberland
  • Unlocking the Severn - to reopen the River Severn and lower River Teme for fish species, and reconnect people with their natural and cultural heritage through a fish, the twaite shad

Projects on GOV.UK:

Closed projects

Updates to this page

Published 4 July 2017
Last updated 23 June 2021 + show all updates

  1. LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES project now has its own website: https://saveourseabed.co.uk/the-project/

  2. Added LIFE in the Ravines project.

  3. We've added a link to the Rapid Reduction of Nutrients in Transitional Waters project

  4. Added the LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES project - report on funding to protect seagrass and maerl beds.

  5. Link to the Dynamic Dunescapes website added.

  6. First published.

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