WWT completes restoration of 370 hectares of coastal wetlands in Somerset

The Wetter for Waders project has enhanced and restored wetland habitat across WWT Steart Marshes and Bridgwater Bay Somerset Wetlands National Nature Reserve, creating new scrapes, enhancing lagoons and ditches, and installing a tidal inlet. The two-year project, funded by £800,000 from the government's Species Survival Fund, has already shown results including evidence of breeding great-crested newts and benefits for nesting birds like avocets.