As part of our project Blythe Alive Again, we have restored an old paleo-channel which used to flow off the river Blythe. A paleo-channel is the old indentation of the ground where the river use to run, before the river Blythe was moved and straightened as part of historic human interventions.
By digging out the old channel we’ve created a very wiggly scrape, a standing body of water that provides great habitat for wildlife and stores water on the floodplain.
Big thanks to Practicality Brown for their hard work on this project.
Image credit: Nick May, Practicality Brown
Blythe Alive Again is a wildlife-focussed project to restore and re-naturalise critical areas of the River Blythe. Generously funded by the Environment Agency and Severn Trent, and working alongside Natural England, we will be working from 2022 onwards on over 140 hectares of land within the River Blythe SSSI (Site of special Scientific Interest) area, to create a wide range of habitats.
