the lancashire wildlife trust for the carbon landscape partnership.
The Carbon Landscape is a diverse landscape of water, fen, wet grassland, wet
woodland and lowland raised bog with a rich natural environment woven into its
industrial heritage. It boasts rare wildlife like willow tits, bitterns, great
crested newts, water voles, bog mosses and black-necked grebes. The Carbon
Landscape has a variety of wetlands. Plan your visit. It has different
designations and declarations ranging from the internationally important Special
Area for Conservation (SAC), nationally important (Sites of Special Scientific
Interest), National Nature Reserves, Local Nature Reserves, Sites of Biological
Interest (Greater Manchester Ecology Unit) to local wildlife corridors and
stepping stones that people regularly enjoy. Working with fourteen delivery
partners the Carbon Landscape encompasses sites across the Flashes of Wigan and
Leigh National Nature Reserve with SSSI designation at Ince Moss and Abram
Flashes Mosslands of Wigan, Salford and Warrington proposed National Nature
Reserve including parts of remnant lowland raised bogs with SAC designation at
Risley, Holcroft and Bedford and Astley Mosses. Mersey Wetlands Corridor
stretching from where the Irwell meets the Manchester Ship Canal, including
Woolston Eyes (SAC), Rixton (SAC) and Paddington Meadows in Warrington. The
Carbon Landscape is the flagship programme of the Great Manchester Wetlands
Partnership. Delivery partners came together to deliver, a £3.2million programme
funded by the Heritage Fund (2017 – 2022). Please see our Success Stories. Our
wildlife is connected through habitat restoration, access improvements and
capacity building within our local communities. In this way nature and local
custodians come together to enable a resilient post-industrial landscape on the
doorsteps of two million people.
