Ecology Calendar

Work is underway using a wide variety of mechanisms to improve and enhance the Mease in the catchment, on the tributaries and the main river.

The Mease Ecology and activity Calendar lists the important species that are present in the Mease catchment. It shows the various times of year and when it is appropriate  to carryout works.

What We Are Doing

Nutrient neutrality is a means of ensuring that a development plan or project does not add to existing nutrient burdens within catchments, so there is no net increase in nutrients as a result of the plan or project.
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River restoration helps towards returning the SSSI into ‘good’ condition.
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Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) is a project run by Natural England in partnership with the Environment Agency and The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
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The objective a ‘Catchment Based Approach’ is to encourage organisations to manage land and water in an integrated way, identifying the pressures on the water environment and by working together agree common objectives and implement solutions.
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Farmer facilitation is a DEFRA initiative within countryside stewardship. It funds a facilitator to bring farmers together to improve the natural environment at a landscape scale rather than farm scale.
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This is the name given to the broad stakeholder group that supports the partnership approach of working together to enhance the Mease.
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A number of projects have been completed, with more taking place or being planned at various sites within the catchment of the Mease.
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The Mease Ecology and activity Calendar lists the important species that are present in the Mease catchment.
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