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Rewilding Middle England The Wetland Vision Andrew Heaton Environment Agency

Rewilding Middle England The Wetland Vision Andrew Heaton Environment Agency. Wetland Benefits. Biodiversity Flood alleviation Water quality Water supply (groundwater recharge) Recreation Landscape Climate change. The Wetland Vision. EA/EN/RSPB/WTs Three stage process

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Rewilding Middle England The Wetland Vision Andrew Heaton Environment Agency

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  1. Rewilding Middle EnglandThe Wetland VisionAndrew HeatonEnvironment Agency

  2. Wetland Benefits • Biodiversity • Flood alleviation • Water quality • Water supply (groundwater recharge) • Recreation • Landscape • Climate change

  3. The Wetland Vision • EA/EN/RSPB/WTs • Three stage process • Data gathering: where wetlands are, where they could be • Development of maps identifying areas having future wetland potential • Options for achieving the wetland vision Local communities, regional and other planning processes to use the Vision to protect and create wetlands • Naturalness: how managed should rewetted sites be?

  4. The Wetland Vision • Layers of data (eg soil types, flood potential) identify future wetland potential • Step 1: overlaying environmental data sets • Step 2: summarising information (by catchment) • Step 3: proposing a way forward in any given area

  5. Other Guidance • EMRBS - BEAs/SRCs focus for habitat creation • BEAs wetland focus • WM Landscapes for Living

  6. Wetland opportunities in Middle England East Midlands: • Lincolnshire Fens • Trent Valley • Soar Valley • Nene Park

  7. Wetland opportunities in Middle England West Midlands: • Trent Valley • Tame Valley • Severn/Vyrnwy Confluence • Severn and Avon Vales • Meres and Mosses

  8. Wetland Opportunities in Middle England Elsewhere: • Great Fen Project • Coastal Wetlands - Freiston, Alkborough • Severn Vale (Gloucestershire)

  9. What might these Wetlands look like?

  10. What might these Wetlands look like?

  11. The Elephant in the Room • CLIMATE CHANGE • water resources • invasives • future ecology

  12. Rewetting Middle England • Landscape-scale approach • Biodiversity • Environmental services

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