Wansbeck Restoration For Climate Change - WRCC
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Wansbeck Restoration for Climate Change (WRCC) will restore mixed habitats, showcasing how different landowners can come together to address climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote carbon storage, in a way that benefits nature and society. WRCC will create/restore 6 priority habitats over 10 sites across 3 estates totalling 144.1 ha of direct habitat improvement/creation in rural Northumberland restoring 6,303 ha of river catchment in the Mid-Northumberland national character area.
Groundwork NE & Cumbria has been awarded almost £600,000 by Natural England to pursue its Wansbeck Restoration for Climate Change (WRCC) project. It is one of only six pioneering nature projects across England to receive funding to trial ways to capture carbon and mitigate the impacts of climate change. At the heart of the project are nature based solutions, restoring natural habitats to tackle the environmental crisis.
The Wansbeck project will work over 144 hectares of farmland in Northumberland spanning the Wallington Hall, Middleton North and Little Harle estates to restore landscapes and habitats including grasslands, peaty pockets and woodland. The work will also assess how carbon is captured and stored across different habitats, and how nature-based solutions can successfully be used to tackle climate change in a farmed landscape.