Habitat Creation

Habitat Creation: New opportunities for wildlife
 

Habitat creation requires the careful fusion of scientific techniques, practical awareness and financial planning. Our input into restoration plans has influenced many large scale habitat creation projects in Norfolk.

These have included:

• Hilgay Wetland Creation Project - A former arable site at Hilgay, in West Norfolk, to be turned into a new wetland nature reserve. A partnership between Norfolk Wildlife Trust and the Environment Agency has been formed in order to develop the project. Norfolk Wildlife Services assisted the Trust in undertaking ecological and protected species surveys at Hilgay, including a Phase 1 habitat survey, preparing an environmental assessment report and surveying bats, breeding birds, badgers, reptiles and invertebrates. The Hundred-Acre Reedbed Project at NWT Hickling Broad
• Forestry removal to create heath at NWT Grimston Warren in West Norfolk
• Grazing marsh restoration from arable at NWT Upton Broad and Marshes