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Creating Nature Recovery Networks
The Wildlife Trusts are working to transform the environment we live in.
We aim to restore, recreate and reconnect wildlife-rich spaces in rural and urban areas by working in partnership with local communities, landowners, schools and businesses. We are identifying key areas to protect for wildlife; enlarging, improving and joining them up across the UK on nature reserves, in towns and cities, and in partnership with hundreds of other landowners.
As the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside we want wildlife to thrive, to disperse and re-colonise our landscape so future generations can encounter, experience and enjoy our natural heritage. And so that we can too.
The Wildlife Trusts are working across the UK, to put wildlife back on the map outside our protected nature reserves and with the help of a wide range of partners and communities.
Here at the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside we play a key part in creating these nature recovery networks.
Great Manchester Wetlands Nature Improvement Area
The Great Manchester Wetlands Nature Improvement Area is our biggest Living Landscape scheme, covering 48,000 ha. We are the lead partner in the GM Wetlands partnership formed in 2011 consisting of over 20 organisations, including statutory organisations, local authorities, private businesses, environmental charities and community groups.
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Red Squirrel Recovery Network
The Red Squirrel Recovery Network (RSRN) is an ambitious project which will work at a super-landscape scale across northern England and southern Scotland to bring about lasting change for red squirrels, who would be lost in 10 years without continuous and extensive conservation efforts.
Harrison Holmes, 2, and Noah Kay, 1, feed the ducks and swans at Wigan Flashes Open Day with Andy and Becky Kay and Louise Holmes by Alan Wright (2)
Wigan Greenheart
The Wigan Greenheart Landscape Recovery scheme covers a combined area of over 1,400 hectares, including the Flashes of Wigan and Leigh National Nature Reserve. We are working together with partners, making connections for nature's recovery.
