Habitat project gets funding

A WETLANDS habitat restoration scheme has secured £325,000 in funding.

The ‘Wilder, Wetter Caerlaverock: The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust’ has been granted the money over three years from the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund.

It will be used to restore wetland habitats for wildfowl and natterjack toads at its Caerlaverock site in Dumfries and Galloway.

The project will replace intensive agricultural practices with ecosystem-sensitive, low impact grazing to enhance habitats and increase species diversity. It will protect and enhance the population of the nationally rare natterjack toad by creating six breeding ponds.

It was one of 31 projects to receive funding as part of a national drive to transform nature in Scotland.