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Essex and Suffolk Stour Valley 10 Rivers Project
The Water Environment Grant Funded Essex and Suffolk Stour Valley Ten Rivers Project is now complete and will bring multiple landscape scale benefits to the River Stour catchment and wildlife in the area. A grant of £65,000 helped to implement a multi-faceted project that included planting thousands of trees, habitat creation, and improving water quality,…
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New life for the rare cotton-trees of Suffolk
The magnificent black poplar trees have become increasingly rare in the landscape over time due to several factors. Helen Bynum from the Suffolk Tree Wardens Network explains more about these magnificent trees, why their numbers dwindled, and the exciting new interventions that are being carried out to conserve and restore Suffolk’s cotton-trees. Suffolk’s black poplars…
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Brand new AONB newspaper for 2022-23!
Hot off the press! Our brand new, free AONB newspaper is now available to read online, or pick up a copy from 100s of locations around the area.This year our theme is climate change. Find out the impacts of climate change on wildlife, nature and the landscape in our special area, and what you can…
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New AONB award winner announced
Adrian Silvertown has been named the winner of the Robert Erith National Landscape Award in the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and Stour Valley Project area for 2021-22. The Robert Erith National Landscape Award celebrates and recognises the achievements of individuals, groups and organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to the…
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More than £90,000 of funding awarded to farmers and land managers as part of pioneering new programme
The Farming in Protected Landscapes programme provides funding for farm projects meeting several specific objectives under the four themes. The programme has just finished its first year in operation, with more than £90,000 awarded to farmers and land managers in Suffolk and Essex since the scheme began in summer 2021. Around £30,000 in Coast &…