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Mills & Reeve alongside client Albanwise Environment, a nature recovery and land management company, have teamed up to embark on the first step in a nature conservation project.
Stoke Ferry Wetland is uniquely positioned in a strategically important river corridor, in the floodplain of the River Wissey, close to other existing wetlands and joined to its north by old unimproved species-rich grasslands. This land is difficult to cultivate as it often suffers with flooding or the peat soil degrades during times of drought. However, there’s still plenty of potential for restoring the peat soils, helping to draw atmospheric carbon back down into the ground.
In a first step towards planning the restoration, representatives from Albanwise Environment and Mills & Reeve visited the site with environmental DNA (eDNA) specialists NatureMetrics to extract genetic traces of the land from soil samples to detect which species live in and around the area. The soil samples will then be amplified and compared to global reference libraries that contain the genomes of tens of thousands of species.
Mike Edwards
Director
Albanwise Environment
Jessica Wilkes-Ball
Head of Sustainability & Net Zero
Mills & Reeve
Andy Millar
Environment Manager for Norfolk
Albanwise Environment
Chris French
Senior Account Executive
NatureMetrics
Lauren Parker
Partner
Mills & Reeve
This peat restoration project is supported through the Fens East Peat Partnership funded by a Restoration Grant from the Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme administered by Natural England.
The Fens East Peat Partnership is funded by a Restoration Grant from the Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme administered by Natural England. The six partners are: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, Norfolk Wildlife Trust, RSPB, National Trust, Natural England and the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
