For the past two years, Suffolk Wildlife Trust (SWT) has been working with 17 farmers and landowners in the Waveney Valley on a pilot project to restore flood-prone areas to their natural state.

The charity is now seeking millions of pounds in funding from the government to take its groundbreaking Waveney and Little Ouse Landscape Recovery scheme to the next stage.

A new floodplain area created as part of the Waveney and Little Ouse Recovery Project (Image: Suffolk Wildlife Trust)

It hopes to create fenland areas to help prevent flooding while also helping farmers gain compensation for any loss of earnings for restoring the land.

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