Over the past 18 months ecologists and members of the land management team from Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trusts specialist subsidiary EMEC Ecology, have been working to create ponds thanks to a new scheme over the border in Leicestershire.
EMEC, which generates profits to invest in the Trust’s charitable delivery, is becoming a leader in its field, having built experience delivering a range of projects across the UK. Funding for this particular project came from a new scheme designed to help create new habitat for great crested newts, a protected species, as mitigation of impacts linked to permitted housing developments.