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Get advice on improving your school grounds for nature, wildlife and biodiversity, and find out how to get in touch to book an advice visit.
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£6 million investment to trigger new phase for UK nature recovery
The Wildlife Trusts ramp-up plans to combat nature crisis with new rewilding programme
Grassland
Flower-rich grasslands, once a part of every farm, are part of our culture. Most have developed alongside humans because of livestock grazing and cutting for hay. Many have archaeological and…
Meadow creation and enhancement - funding and advice
Norfolk Wildlife Trust can provide advice, support and delivery to landowners to help you create new areas of meadow and to enhance existing areas. We can provide site visits, advice on creating and enhancing meadows for wildlife as well as advice to support you in fulfilling stewardship requirements. We also provide a paid service to plan and deliver grassland creation and enhancement programmes from beginning to end.
Enhancing an existing meadow
To provide information on how meadows can be enhanced to become more species-rich and diverse places for wildlife. This can be achieved through a variety of methods including seeding and the use of green hay.
Farm wildlife advice
Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s Wilder Landscapes Advisers work with farmers and land managers across Norfolk to encourage, support and develop wildlife-friendly management – helping to create more space for nature.
Calaminarian grassland
This is a strange, sparse habitat of grassland growing on old mining tracks and slag heaps, on river gravels and naturally exposed metal-rich soils in the mountains. Only the toughest metal-loving…
Local Nature Recovery Strategy
By responding to the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) Public Survey by the 14th of July you can have your say and help to shape the priorities for nature recovery in Norfolk.
Upland calcareous grassland
Limited in distribution, this sweetly-scented, short-cropped, springy grassland is famed for its abundance of rare and scarce species.
Norfolk Wildlife Trust and National Highways announce biodiversity boost
Norfolk Wildlife Trust and National Highways have joined forces to launch a new Network for Nature programme, with three projects that will improve habitats across Norfolk, benefitting people,…
Lowland calcareous grassland
Typical of softly rolling pastoral landscapes, the short, aromatic turf of lowland calcareous grassland is flower-rich and humming with insects in the summer. Its long use by humans lends it an…
Upland acid grassland and rush pasture
These grasslands, occupying much of the UK's heavily-grazed upland landscape, are of greater cultural than wildlife interest, but remain a habitat to some scarce and declining species.