How did we build a wetland in the UK? Delivering nature recovery on an average agricultural holding
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- We built a wetland. The Watercress Rewetting Project at Watercress Farm is our largest nature restoration project to date in South West, UK.
Nature Recovery | Ecosystem Restoration | Rewetting | Biodiversity | South West | Natural Capital
We are restoring landscapes in a new style of land management that leaves a meaningful legacy for nature and the community. The rewilding and wetland ecotourism project located 15 minutes outside Bristol is a testament to innovative environmental stewardship.
The intention of the wetland project is to reconnect the Land Yeo River to its former floodplain, restoring critical hydrological processes and creating a new, more sinuous river channel, lakes, ponds and seasonally wet scrapes delivering huge benefits for people and nature. The project is designed to filter and slow rainwater runoff, helping to prevent downstream flooding and reduce pollutants and excess nutrients entering the river, and ultimately the sea, transforming an environmentally degraded landscape into a biodiverse wetland, supporting abundant wildlife.
The project will create a dynamic and sustainable habitat for a myriad of wildlife including otters, kingfishers, and water voles and will provide opportunities for the local community to visit, learn from, be inspired by, and connect with the natural world.
More more information about our projects, visit www.belmont.estate
Amazing!
please make a follow up video of how it looks now :3
Thank you for the support of the wetland. We intend to do a follow-up video on the project soon. However, before that, we will release some drone footage of what the site looks like this summer.
Excellent oversight of the project. I was involved in a lot of quarry restoration work 20+ years ago, well before machine control. The key part was finding the machine operators who could replicate the design where small level changes made significant variances in the eventual habitat created. Hope you post further videos. Capturing an orthomosaic would be good so that you could monitor change over time. I surveyed a large nature reserve recently where the data will be used to monitor reed growth. Drone derived data is excellent for this purpose and can be done quickly and ground disturbance.
Thanks so much, Jeremy. Glad you enjoyed the video. We will be monitoring the site and drones will be part of the plans going forwards
Let me know if I can assist if you don't already have plans in place@@belmontestateuk
Lets see what it looks like now please.
What is success going to look like for you and how will you measure it?