A catchment project across North Buckinghamshire delivering biodiversity net gain through wetland habitat creation, combined with flood risk reduction through the implementation of Natural Flood Management (NFM) measures.
Freshwater Habitats Trust is working in partnership with Buckinghamshire Council to identify and assess opportunities to improve the freshwater landscape across multiple North Buckinghamshire river catchments. The project seeks to deliver biodiversity net gain through wetland habitat creation, combined with flood risk reduction through the implementation of Natural Flood Management (NFM) measures.
The first year of the project is in two stages
1 A baseline monitoring programme
This will assess the current status of the freshwater environment, enabling the success of net gain measures to be reviewed in the future. We’ll be surveying wetland plants at landscape scale across the whole project area and updating records of priority species like Spined Loach and Great Crested Newt.
2 Detailed hydrological modelling of river catchments
Delivery of a series of wetland habitat creation and restoration works, and the implementation of a series of natural flood management features
Our work through the North Bucks Freshwater Resilience project
Browse some of the natural flood management measures we’ve installed with our partners through the North Bucks Freshwater Resilience project.
Pond restoration work at Tattenhoe Valley Park being undertaken by the Parks Trust through the North Bucks Freshwater Resilience Project.
A leaky dam created through the North Bucks Freshwater Resilience project.