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Apply now for funding from the Farming in Protected Landscapes programme
Farming in Protected Landscapes is a new grant programme for the Coast & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, along with all of the National Parks and other AONBs in England. Through the programme, farmers and land managers can be supported to carry out projects that Support nature recovery, Mitigate the impacts of climate change,…
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Suffolk’s secret coast celebrates sold out season
Staff and volunteers at the National Trust’s Orford Ness are celebrating their first ever entirely sold-out season. Having remained closed throughout 2020 due to the Covid pandemic, the site on the Suffolk coast reopened on Good Friday 2021 and has been sold out every day it’s been open, until the end of season on Saturday…
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2021-22 Volunteer Work Party Programme
In the Coast & Heaths AONB we hold regular conservation work days from October through to April. We have now published our programme activities for the coming months! The volunteers regularly undertake practical conservation work. If you would like to work outdoors in the beautiful Coast & Heaths, help your local environment and meet some new…
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Showcasing Suffolk’s environmental achievements as the UK hosts COP26
Creating the Greenest County is now more important and more relevant than ever – going green, reducing carbon and protecting biodiversity are choices we must all be making. The United Nations COP26 event in November will rightly focus on the international agreements that need to be in place, and the 2021 Creating the Greenest County…
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Orford shows off its new look skyline
The skyline of a historic Suffolk village has been transformed by the removal of overhead power lines as part of a £600,000 project. UK Power Networks has completed its work at Orford which has seen more than 5,000 metres of both 33,000-volt and 11,000-volt overhead lines replaced by new underground cabling to continue the safe…