Making a B-Line: Restoring Ryedale’s Lowland Meadows

The ‘Restoring Ryedale’s Lowlands Meadows’ Project is part of the national B-Lines Initiative, which aims to address the loss of wildflower-rich grasslands and the pollinators they support.B-Lines are wide strips of permanent wildflower-rich grasslands, which link existing wildlife areas to create a network of habitats that will weave across the British countryside. This will provide large areas of restored/new habitat which will benefit a whole range of wildlife, including bumblebees, butterflies and moths. This Project will start to establish one of Yorkshire’s B-Lines by creating large areas of wildflower-rich grasslands. It will increase the ecological robustness of a badly fragmented ecological network that extends up the River Derwent, and connects across to wildflower-rich grasslands of the North York Moors.