A NEW partnership is looking to improve habitats across Cheshire. Cheshire Wildlife Trust and National Highways have joined forces to deliver a ‘Network for Nature’. The partnership will see 30 hectares of wildflower meadows created to support the county’s wildlife as part of the trust’s Pollinating Cheshire project.
Hannah Dalton, senior living landscape officer at Cheshire Wildlife Trust, said: “We are delighted to have been successful securing this funding to support our Pollinating Cheshire project. “The funding will help us to work with farmers and landowners, creating beautiful meadows to support a wealth of wildlife across Cheshire. “We are looking forward to making a difference for wildlife by creating new wildflower meadows using seed harvested locally and enhancing existing wildflower meadows, with plug plants grown from hand-collected Cheshire seed grown in our wildflower nursery.
” Cheshire Wildlife Trust’s Pollinating Cheshire project is one of 51 projects which form the Network for Nature programme. Funding designated by National Highways will look to create and restore areas that have been impacted by activities from previous road building. Nikki Robinson, nature recovery programme manager for The Wildlife Trusts, said: “We’re very pleased that National Highways is committed to Network for Nature, with a strategic approach to restoring nature and joining up vital places for wildlife to help counter the damaging impacts of previous road buil.
