NATURE IMPROVEMENT AREAS WHERE THEY ARE - AND WHAT THEY CONTAIN

1 Birmingham and the Black

Creating new habitats in an industrial area, including heathland and 40 hectares of new native woodland

Country Living Landscape

2 Dark Peak
Restoring degraded habitats in the Peak District National Park, and creating new native woodland

3 Dearne Valley Green Heart

To restore the River Don floodplain and create new wetlands and woodlands in industrial Yorkshire
Eel Anguilla anguilla

4 Greater Thames Marshes

Will create and enhance grazing marsh, salt marsh and mudflat habitats, where wildlife is struggling.

5 Humberhead Levels
Bringing back wetland habitat in the great lowland straddling Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire

Lowland heath

Ring ouzel Turdus torquatus

Scarce emerald damselfly Lestes dryas

Water vole Arvicola amphibius

6 Marlborough Downs
A farmer-led partnership looking to restore chalk grassland habitats and associated wildlife
Lesser butterfly orchid Platanthera bifolia

7 Meres and Mosses

of the Marches

8 Morecambe Bay

Limestones and Wetlands

9 Nene Valley
Working with farmers to restore habitats and restore tributaries and reaches of the River Nene

Reducing agricultural pollution in wetlands, peat bogs, ponds and rivers in Cheshire and Shropshire

Enhancing the wildlife potential of the famous limestone outcrop in north Lancashire and Cumbria
High brown fritillary butterly Argynnis adippe

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Snipe Gallinago gallinago

Bittern Botaurus stellaris

10 Northern Devon
Project will recreate and restore 1,000 hectares of priority habitat including the River Torridge
Freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera

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11 South Downs Way Ahead

Restoring 1,000 hectares of chalk grassland to encourage rare butterflies and farmland birds
Duke of Burgundy butterfly Hamearis lucina

12 Wild Purbeck
Restoring a variety of river, wetland, heath and woodland habitat plus a new 7-hectare saline lagoon

Dorset heath Erica ciliaris