Mendip Hills Living Landscape

Somerset Wildlife Trust’s Mendip Hills Living Landscape project is working to restore, recreate and reconnect wildlife habitats across this beautiful working landscape. We need to do this because the habitat our wildlife depends on has become fragmented leaving stranded pockets of wildlife vulnerable to changing conditions such as intensification of land management and climate change. 

If we don’t link up these islands of habitat and create highways our wildlife can move around we risk losing some of our most valuable species. We are working to create a landscape where wildlife flourishes, alongside thriving rural communities that enjoy a healthy natural environment.

Our nature reserves and other protected areas (Sites of Special Scientific Interest) are just not enough to protect our wildlife which is why we are working across the wider Mendip landscape.

Want To Know More?

• Find out how you can help protect wildlife as part of this local project
• Find out how local landowners are benefitting from a Living Landscape on Mendip
• Join our podcasting pioneers Jake and Jessy for a tour of Ubley Warren Nature Reserve's wildlife, history and geology.
• Read the latest news with project updates from the team: February 2011; November 2010.
• Come along to the Mendip Hills AONB Historic Environment day on Saturday 24th March 2012 at Wells & Mendip Museum.

Creating a Living Landscape

Our goal for Mendip is:

• to protect existing good quality habitat
• to restore or recreate other areas of land to a better quality for wildlife
• to reconnect isolated areas of valuable wildflower meadows, limestone grasslands, heaths and woodlands across Mendip

We will achieve this by:

• identifying the best areas of species-rich grasslands, heaths and woodlands
• identifying land that can be restored to wildflower-rich meadows
• providing advice to landowners on land management that benefits wildlife
• assisting landowners with grant applications for agri-environment schemes such as HLS, ELS and EWGS
• providing practical help to restore wildflower grasslands
• helping to fund conservation / restoration work where possible
• surveying key species such as dormice and bats

Wildlife Surveys 

Find out all about species surveys on Mendip: 

Big Bat Survey Report 2010

Big Bat Survey Report 2009

MLLP Dormouse Survey Report 2009

MLLP Dormouse Survey Report 2010

Working Collaboratively

Somerset Wildlife Trust cannot work in isolation to achieve our vision for the Mendip Hills. We are working with a range of other organisations without whose valuable help the project could not succeed.

These organisations are involved in the Mendip Hills Living Landscape Working Group and Project Forum:

Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group, National Trust, Natural England, Forestry Commission, Avon Wildlife Trust and Somerset County Council

This project is one of a series of Living Landscape projects across south-west England which aim to restore and link together areas of valuable habitat throughout the countryside.

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Downloads

Where are the Mendip Hills and why are they important?

Big Bat Survey 2009

Big Bat Survey 2010

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