- Best preserved vegetated shingle site in the UK and only cuspate foreland land
The Eu's Life + Nature Project
- This is the EU's main funding programme for environment and conservation works and aims to implement the EU Birds and Habitats Directives on Natura 2000 Network Sites
- The programme is run with the support of DEFRA and the site is now in its 3rd round of funding
- The aim is to initiate long-term improvements to the management of the site under National Trust and RSPB (Havergate Island) custodianship
- Improve water management and reduce 'disturbance'
- Manage tourism
- Aim to establish a 'functional, efficient and sustainable systems of water management' to improve the quality of the coastal lagoons and marshes whilst responding to lower rainfall
- This has been done by constructing new ditches, creating new lagoons and introducing water controls
- Rebuild sea wall
Why?
- Protect vegetation
- Protect invertebrates
- Protect variety of bird species, especially ground nesting birds
Monitoring reports available on
- Species monitoring
- water quality
- ecological monitoring
- invertebrate monitoring
- Hydrology
- Predator plan
- Sea survey
- 'working together' leaflet
- interpretation boards
Stuart
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