26 April 2023
The High Weald AONB Partnership has received two accolades at the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) Sussex Countryside Awards. The awards celebrate the ‘countryside heroes’ of Sussex – organisations and individuals that enrich and support rural communities across the county, with a particular focus on sustainability and conservation. The High Weald Hero […]
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26 April 2023
Calling all landowners, farmers, community groups, trusts, charities, town and parish councils, schools and individuals who own or manage land in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB): If you’ve spent time during lockdown thinking about how you could improve your corner of the High Weald for wildlife or scenic beauty, there may […]
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17 March 2021
Grants from the Sussex Lund (now known as a the Nature and Community Fund) have supported the restoration of 20 hectares of floodplain at Sheffield Park, one of Sussex’s most popular visitor attractions. Sheffield Park is much loved for the colours of its autumn parkland, but the site spans a much larger area of over […]
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17 March 2021
The Wickerwood Wildlife Site has been created on the former Horam brickworks in East Sussex, thanks to grants from Sussex Lund (now the Nature and Community Fund). It is a 40-acre community land project designed to bring people closer to nature while enhancing biodiversity. Led by Sacred Earth, a community interest organisation focused on nature […]
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Case study
17 March 2021
Battle Wood is a privately owned area of ancient woodland in the High Weald, rich in native species but increasingly under pressure from invasive plants. Over time, large stands of rhododendron and extensive bracken had taken hold across the site, suppressing native ground flora and limiting the woodland’s ecological diversity. Riddled with rhodedendron In some […]
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