Conservation projects

Wilder Humber is a five-year programme to restore marine habitats and species throughout the Humber estuary delivered through a pioneering conservation partnership between Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, and international green energy leader Ørsted. 

The Fens East Peat Partnership (FEPP) is working on plans to rewet and restore peatland sites in low-lying areas of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and keep carbon locked in, benefitting the environment, people and wildlife.

The Humberhead Levels Partnership is a cooperative effort aiming to create an internationally renowned, unique network of wetlands in a predominantly agricultural landscape, whilst supporting thriving communities and wildlife. One of its key aims is to work with local businesses, landowners, communities and other organisations to achieve sustainable land management practices.

We have lost over 97% of our wildflower-rich grassland since the 1930s. What is left is limited mostly to nature reserves which are disconnected from one another. Road verges can act not only as refuges for wildlife but can also function as corridors which enable wildlife to move through our landscape as it needs to in order to survive.

Find out what we're doing to protect these ‘Nature Recovery Networks’ whilst providing economic benefit and working in partnership with local authorities.

The mission of this project is to create a market in natural environment asset trading across Greater Lincolnshire. We are hoping to ensure a prosperous green investment economy that delivers for people and wildlife in Lincolnshire that is fair, equitable and transparent for all concerned.

The Ancholme Catchment Partnership is part of the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) to collaborative working at a river catchment scale. This is a new project for north Lincolnshire with a catchment plan currently in development.

CaBA partnerships are active in all 100+ river catchments across England and Wales, and they directly support the delivery of many of the targets in the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan.

Fens for the Future, in partnership with the South Lincolnshire Fenlands, is working to restore landscape-scale wetlands across the Fens National Character Area. This will achieve enhanced biodiversity outcomes and increased delivery of ecosystem services within the geographic area of the Inner Fens. This broad aim will be delivered by means of a long-term Strategic Plan which encompasses its vision, a major part of which is to develop and establish an enhanced and sustainable ecological network on Fenland.

The Wash and North Norfolk Marine Partnership consists of a network of four protected areas created to conserve the unique and very special marine wildlife of The Wash and North Norfolk coast.

Coastal communities, regulatory authorities and conservation groups (including Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust) are working together to protect the remarkable nature and rich culture of this coastal habitat.

Dynamic Dunescapes is an exciting and ambitious project, rejuvenating some of England & Wales' most important sand dunes for people, communities and wildlife. From Cornwall to Cumbria, the Dynamic Dunescapes project will restore nine key dune areas in England and Wales. These key areas include 34 individual dune sites, including Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes and Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire, and cover up to 7,000 hectares.

Now in its legacy phase, the LoveLincsPlants project aims to preserve Lincolnshire’s botanical heritage and inspire and train future botanists. Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the project has helped to preserve over 11,000 historic herbarium specimens so far, whilst also creating a contemporary herbarium (plant archive) for the county.

We're now looking for volunteers to help us to collect plant specimens to add to our contemporary herbarium.

The Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme is the cornerstone of the government’s new agricultural policy. Founded on the principle of ‘public money for public goods’, ELM will provide a powerful way of achieving the goals of the 25 Year Environment Plan and commitment to net zero emissions by 2050, while supporting our rural economy.

We're currently running two ELMS Tests. One in the Humberhead Levels in the north and the other in South Lincolnshire.

The Life on the Verge Project began in 2009 with the aim of collecting data on important wildflowers along a stretch of over 3,900km of roadside verges through volunteer surveys. Following it's completion in 2016, this huge effort has led to the designation of 159 new Local Wildlife Sites on verges, which constitutes to nearly 100ha of wildflower-rich habitat. Maps of these results are now helping the Trust and its partner organisations to target conservation management more effectively.

Thanks to a £857,399 Landscape Partnerships Grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, a three-year partnership-led project to regenerate the Lincolnshire Coastal Grazing Marshes was launched in December 2011. The project focused on three target areas in East Lindsey around Burgh-le-Marsh, Saltfleetby and Huttoft.

The project supported local farmers and landowners in efforts to conserve the remaining traditional grazing marsh by providing access to grants, advice and training. Local communities were also supported through a programme of cultural, educational and access projects, helping to increase awareness whilst boosting local economy.

The Lincolnshire Limewoods Project is a partnership that is protecting, enhancing and promoting the natural and historic landscape and features of the Lincolnshire Limewoods. While only covering 2.3% of Lincolnshire, the project area contains just over a quarter of all Lincolnshire’s ancient semi-natural woodland.

Find out how the project is promoting this landscape and making it more accessible for communities and visitors.