Healing Britain
1. WILDLIFE CORRIDORS
It’s crucial for the health and diversity of our wildlife, particularly pollinators, that fragmented patches of good habitat are connected by corridors that animals can travel through to reach feeding sites and to find mates. Buglife’s B-Lines project encourages farmers, landowners, local governments and the general public to create flower-rich pathways on their properties, forming a network to create and restore at least 150,000 hectares of fertile, wildlife-friendly habitat. SH buglife.org.uk/our-work/b-lines • See our feature on verges, page 46
2. THE GREAT FEN PROJECT
In Cambridgeshire, 14 square miles of farmland are being turned back into a varied landscape of bogs, meadows, woodlands and wet heaths. This restoration project, one of the largest of its type in Europe, provides a window into a past much richer in
