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Scaling for Impact: Going Digital with Weald to Waves

Discover our new Members Area, with tools and resources to help everyone in Sussex take action for a thriving, connected landscape.

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Our Must Listen: The Wandering Ecologist with Penny Green

Celebrating positive nature conservation news one story, one friendship, one wild place at a time.

Wild farmland border. Photo by Alex Briggs

Farming Through Uncertainty: Navigating Policy, Funding and Nature Markets in 2025

Uncertainty is nothing new for farmers, but 2025 brings major changes. Explore the latest agri-environment schemes and market opportunities.

Greening Arundel BioBox

Discovering Nature on Our Doorstep With the Weald to Waves BioBoxes

With over 250 species recorded so far, the Weald to Waves BioBoxes are revealing the hidden biodiversity of Sussex and sparking community-led discovery.

Canoes on Lower Adur, Jasmine Cacioppo

Relief for Our Rivers? New Report Spells Change for the Water Sector

Tides might be about to change for the UK water sector as the Independent Water Commission has released a landmark report directly challenging the status quo

Steyning Festival Green Day May 2024, by Frank Bull

Read more about Greening Steyning and their work this summer to celebrate Wildlife Corridors as part of their Green Day event.

Brown Long-Eared Bats in a Bat Box, by Ryan Greaves

As a species dependant upon good habitat connectivity, bats are particularly important for Weald to Waves. Learn more about bat species in Sussex, and how to help their survival in our own spaces.

Gareth Williams

We are pleased to be joined by Gareth Williams, the newest addition to the team, bringing a wealth of experience to lead the corridor.

Bringing the Black-veined White back to England

The black-veined white butterfly, with its distinctive black-veined wings and elegant flight, was once a familiar sight in the hedgerows and woodlands of Sussex.

Ryan Ellis

We are pleased to welcome Ryan Ellis as our Landscape Advisor, who has joined the Weald to Waves corridor to develop of network and to find solutions for food production and habitat management that support nature recovery.

Moving On Parade 2024

PATINA (Parents & Teachers In the Arts) is a charity created at the turn of the millennium to give young people in the Lewes District the opportunity to experience and enjoy art, work directly with professional artists and gain a sense of belonging and community through the arts. Their recent “Moving On Parade” focussed on “Welcome To Our Table”, celebrating local food and all the fun of growing, cooking and eating together.

Mob Grazing cattle

Mob grazing is a technique used by an increasing number of farmers, enabling livestock farming to boost productivity and biodiversity by mimicking natural grazing behaviours.

Connecting to nature

Alongside our work monitoring vital environmental and biodiversity gains, we want to understand how nature recovery across the corridor is benefiting you. How is it making a difference in your lives, and in your communities? We want to hear your experiences.

Swift in flight early morning sun by Paul Stevens

Swifts and House martins have now been red listed in the UK due to a 50% decline in their populations in the last 30 years. Learn how we can again turn our summer skies into a spectacle of these high-speed masters of the air.

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Lifelines works with farmers, landowners, and communities across the UK to support them in planting woodland and hedgerows on their land with the help of different faith & non-faith groups from across the country.

Meadow Brown, Amy Hurn

As Gardens & Greenspaces membership grows, it is wonderful to witness how our individual outdoor spaces, whatever their size are increasingly providing us with that much needed closer connection to nature.

Sussex Nature Recovery

If you’re a farmer, community group, organisation or land manager use the voluntary tool to MapYourActions for nature. Whether they are large or small, in progress, implemented or planned, the Sussex LNRS team want to hear about them!