Plans to restore a precious hay meadow in Herefordshire

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Almost £8million has been raised for the Wildlife Trusts' nature recovery plans.

Six months ago the conservation group set itself a goal to improve natural habitats across 30 percent of land by 2030.

The money will be spent on ten projects - including turning an ex-golf course into a home for bees and butterflies and rewilding a village.

One of the projects includes securing a future for 14 acres of rare wildflower meadows in Herefordshire.

Herefordshire Wildlife Trust is raising £200,000 to restore a precious hay meadow increasing wildflowers to boost numbers of the wood white butterfly and offering a home to plants like the bog pimpernel, sneezewort and flixweed in the wet areas of the meadow.

At 14 acres, the lowland pasture of Ail Meadow is close to several other nature reserves, meadows and woodlands, and will become a steppingstone to other wildlife friendly patches of land creating a nature network.  

Sir David Attenborough, President Emeritus of The Wildlife Trusts, says: “If given a chance – nature is capable of extraordinary recovery. The Wildlife Trusts’ campaign to secure 30 per cent of our land and sea for nature’s recovery by 2030 offers us the vision and level of ambition that is urgently needed to reverse the loss of nature, and so improve all our lives.
 
“We are facing a global extinction crisis which has implications for every one of us. It’s tempting to assume that the loss of wildlife and wild places is a problem that’s happening on the other side of the world. The truth is that the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries on the planet and the situation is getting worse.”
 
 

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