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great potential for enriching habitats and restoring biodiversity

Kent Wildlife Trust

The landscape south of Sevenoaks is one of the gems of the Kentish countryside: a distinctive patchwork of ancient woodland, lush pastures and hedgerows, punctuated by arable fields, orchards and small ponds, which runs from the Greensand Ridge through to the Low Weald. This area has great potential for enriching the wildlife value of existing habitats and restoring much of the past biodiversity of the landscape. The Sevenoaks Living Landscape is one of the smaller-scale schemes being run by Kent Wildife Trust and relies on a very active steering group of mainly local people.

The scheme objectives are:

To facilitate and enable landowners to improve key habitats and ecological connectivity in the project area;
To inspire people to discover and value the special wildlife of the Greensand Ridge and the Low Weald and help them to understand the importance of ecological networks for wildlife;
To involve local people in taking action and building on existing initiatives to create a living landscape by volunteering to help with surveys, events and tasks, managing their land in wildlife-friendly ways and buying local produce.

What’s happening?

We are working with a range of public and private landowners to enhance, extend and link existing wildlife habitats.
The following habitats have been identified where targeted action would be most effective to make a significant improvement to biodiversity on a landscape scale:

Species rich grassland (acid and neutral)
Ancient woodland
Ancient or species-rich hedges
Ponds and other water bodies.
Traditional orchards, since the project area partly sits within the Low Weald, an area long associated with fruit production.

Start date: 2008

Scheme area: 4,000 hectares

Trust reserves within the scheme

Bough Beech and Chiddingstone

This scheme is helping species including...

Barn owl, yellowhammer, great crested newt, bats and butterflies

This scheme is also...

Helping wildlife adapt to climate change, providing skills training

Partners

National Trust, local landowners.

To find out more

Email: info@kentwildlife.org.uk | Tel: 01622 662012 | Sevenoaks Living Landscape

Living Landscapes

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