UK Nature and Environment

Wye Adapt to Climate Change project has provided advice on over 8,000 hectares of land in its first year with land managers, farmers and landowners considering how their land holdings can be made more resilient to climate change.

In 2023 £435,000 was awarded by the National Lottery Climate Action Fund to a partnership of Herefordshire Wildlife Trust, Radnorshire Wildlife Trust and the Wye Valley National Landscape. The Wye Adapt to Climate Change? Project looks at climate resilience across the river Wye catchment and what can be done to improve it for people and nature. With three project officers focusing on target areas we are working with both land managers and the local community.

Running for three years the project aimed to provide advice on 1,000 hectares of farmed land in the river Wye catchment, by the end of the first year we had provided advice on over 8,000 hectares of land. This is thanks to the enthusiasm of land managers, farmers and landowners to be involved and to consider how their land holdings can be made more resilient to climate change.