Network for Nature

The Wildlife Trusts are working in partnership with National Highways to improve habitats across England benefitting people, nature and wildlife.  

Our new programme, Network for Nature will focus on improving, creating and restoring habitat that has been impacted by historic road building activity.   

Over the next four years, Wildlife Trusts in England are working on a huge range of projects from chalk downlands to boost rare butterflies, like the Duke of Burgundy, to wetlands and conserving rare chalk streams for endangered water voles. Some Network for Nature projects are using natural solutions, like reedbeds and ponds to help filter road run-off and prevent it from going into rivers or nature reserves. Network for Nature will also create wildlife corridors to help connect places which have been fragmented by roads, so that wildlife such as dormice can move and spread into the wider landscape.

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