Nature & Rewilding

Somerset Wildlife Trust completed wetland works at seven Avalon Marshes sites. The programme installed and repaired culverts, added an eel pass, reinforced bunds and managed reedbeds, ditches and wet grassland. Work at Brides Fields in Glastonbury included meadow establishment, tree planting and a leaky dam.

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Nature & Rewilding

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust completed a two-year programme of river and wetland works across the Ash, Lea, Quin and Stort. Contractors and volunteers regraded banks, reconnected meanders, replenished riverbed gravels and installed woody habitat. Weir removal and changes to fords improved fish passage.

The funded programme concluded; the trust continues other catchment work.

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Nature & Rewilding

New Forest National Park Authority and its partners completed habitat work across 31 landholdings between March 2024 and February 2026. The programme included heathland management, woodland restoration, new and restored ponds, meadow creation and hedgerow planting.

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Nature & Rewilding

Lancashire Wildlife Trust and The Conservation Volunteers completed wet-woodland works across Bolton, the Salford and Wigan mosslands, Trafford and the Mersey Gateway. Work included coppicing, selective tree removal, scrub planting, invasive-species control and measures to retain water. These treatments maintain the low, dense woodland and decaying timber used by willow tits.

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Nature & Rewilding

The Grosvenor Square redesign restores and adapts the Mayfair garden square with richer planting and new spaces for people and wildlife.

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Nature & Rewilding

The National Trust has converted a former Lincolnshire coastal golf course into a 30-hectare wetland nature reserve and opened it to the public on 26 September 2026.

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Nature & Rewilding

The Environment Agency has opened the expanded Leigh flood storage area and new Hildenborough defences after a three-year construction programme.

Official opening of the expanded Leigh storage area and Hildenborough defences.

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Nature & Rewilding

A wetland restoration project in Kent intended to protect threatened birds.

The Hoo Peninsula works were reported complete by this date. The exact finish date is unknown.

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Nature & Rewilding

At Wallasea Island on the Essex coast, the RSPB is creating more space for wetland birds. Recent work has added 21 small islands to the reserve’s lagoons, while a separate land purchase has expanded the reserve by 100 hectares. The islands give birds somewhere sheltered to rest when the tide is high. The RSPB says Lapwings and Golden Plovers are already using them. They were built as part of a wider wetlands programme completed by February 2026. In January 2025, the RSPB announced that it had bought four fields at the western end of Wallasea Island. The purchase is complete, but the new habitat work has not been confirmed as under way.

Completed refers to the island works and land acquisition. The western habitat-creation phase remains planned.

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Nature & Rewilding

Rushcliffe Borough Council is turning former farmland at Upper Broughton into woodland, meadows and wetlands.

Council confirms more than 15,000 trees and shrubs planted by June 2026, after planting was underway in spring 2026. This dates the woodland planting milestone; habitat development continues. Only the completion year is established.

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Nature & Rewilding

Sheffield City Council and conservation partners completed habitat works across more than 400 acres of Shire Brook Valley in south-east Sheffield. The two-year project restored meadow and heathland, planted trees, created ponds and scrapes, and installed small dams to retain water within the valley.

Completion confirmed in the council’s 26 March report; exact finish day not specified.

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Nature & Rewilding

The National Trust and Durham Heritage Coast Partnership have created a 34-hectare nature reserve on former farmland at Warren House, Horden. Initial works established woodland, wood pasture, grassland, hedgerows, ponds and wetlands, extending the coastal habitat corridor between Horden and Seaham.

Initial reserve-creation phase; exact finish date not reported.

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Nature & Rewilding

WWT and its partners completed a two-year programme of wetland works across more than 370 hectares at Steart Marshes and the neighbouring Somerset Wetlands National Nature Reserve. The work restored scrapes, ponds, lagoons and drains, improved water controls and added a saltmarsh boardwalk.

WWT reported the completed works on 9 April; this is not an exact construction finish date.

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