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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Emily Beament

Beavers, pigs and ponies to rewild landscape in first Government-backed scheme

Boothby Wildland is the first landscape-scale nature recovery programme being implemented with Government support (Emily Beament/PA) -

Beavers, pigs, cattle and ponies are set to help transform former farmland into a wilder landscape in the first large-scale project under a flagship Government programme.

The Boothby Wildland project in Lincolnshire aims to be an “exemplar” of how to use private finance to secure nature restoration, with carbon and nature credits generated from the new habitat and the wildlife it supports.

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