Project Partnership Extended!

The Project is pleased to announce that the funding partnership has been extended for another two and a half years to Aug 2011. Following several months of negotiations and despite hard economic times, an extension agreement was signed at the end of the financial year and formally accepted by Scarborough Borough Council in April.

This secures the Project Officer's role in promoting wetland conservation through Environmental Stewardship farm agreements.  Tim's contract to work on the Project was due to come to an end later this year but is now extended. "This is a ringing endorsement of the work the Project is doing and a measure of the area's importance for wildlife, landscape and people as recognised by the Partner Agencies." says Tim; " It really is great news and I am keen to get stuck in and work with farmers on delivering environmental benefits through HLS" [ Higher Level Stewardship].

But the good news does not stop there... The Partnership has now endorsed the widening of the Wetland Project's original geographical focus, and Tim has already begun working with landowners on Carr land all the way along the Hertford floodplain, following the thick seam of black fen peat which represents the 'palaeo-lake' Lake Flixton.  This peat resource covers 1000 hectares and amounts to an estimated 20million cubic metres, but is gradually disappearing through oxidation on drained fields.