Severnside Work in Stroud District

Create wildlife corridors connecting a network of biodiversity rich sites from Gloucester along the River Severn to Slimbridge and the creation of parish biodiversity action plans to guide this work. Creation of wetlands, restoration of old orchards, pond management and construction, woodland management and creation, hedgerow restoration and planting, creation of cereal field margins, grassland and meadow management. Species targeted include brown hares, pipistrelle bats, bechstein’s bats, great crested newts and european otters and farmland birds all Gloucestershie biodiversity action plan habitats and species