Land the size of 168 football pitches has been re-wetted at RSPB Lakenheath Fen nature reserve near Brandon, Suffolk using a network of dams.

The team also retained rainfall and used ditches, water-control sluices and a water pump with a winter abstraction licence to draw water from a drainage ditch.

It is hoped that restoring dried-out peatland will benefit threatened bird species such as lapwing, redshank and oystercatcher.

Peatland stores carbon but draining it for agriculture releases this carbon in the form of carbon dioxide.

The wetlands at Lakenheath Fen........

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