Revitalising our Estuaries
A new Revitalising our Estuaries (RoE) Project, supported by the Green Recovery Challenge Fund, responds to the North East coastal and estuaries crisis by delivering a blue/green recovery. The health, economy and environment of our coastal regions and communities have been significantly and disproportionally affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, recession and climate change.
Our estuaries and coastal communities also suffer from the highest deprivation nationally and have been largely overlooked. They are in serious need of environmental/economic support to restore habitats, protect priority species and create more green jobs putting young people at the front of our Green Recovery.
Revitalising Our Estuaries Project RoE is an exciting new programme supported by and DEFRA through their Green Recovery Challenge Fund, a national multi-million pound boost for green jobs and nature recovery, administered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project will support nature and economic recovery in 6 areas across the North East as we recover from Covid-19 and to help fight climate change.
Project activity will take place across the Wansbeck, Blyth, Tyne, Wear, Tees and Esk estuaries. It will deliver impressive, high profile habitat protection and creation schemes to help improve and save our estuary habitats and the wildlife found there.
Focussing on the Northern region, a senior ranger will be responsible for a team of trainee Estuary Rangers implementing a range of nature-based solutions on the estuaries and general environmental improvements on the riparian corridor around the Wansbeck and Blyth estuaries.
The team will implement a variety of practical tasks.
Wansbeck
- Intertidal habitat creation
- Saltmarsh restoration
- Creating stepping stones for threatened, iconic or economically important species
- Riparian corridor access improvement
- Thinning of woodland copse
- Planting native plant species
- Treatment of invasive plant species
Blyth
- Intertidal habitat creation
- Creating stepping stones for threatened, iconic or economically important species
- Restoration of intertidal habitats
- Riparian corridor access improvemen
- Thinning of woodland copse
- Planting native plant species
