Landowners and managers within East Suffolk are being invited to apply for funding to help protect vulnerable bird species living within the district’s farmed landscapes.
The East Suffolk Farmland Bird Support Fund (FBSF) which is being delivered by East Suffolk Council has been established to reduce the impact of the Sizewell C project on farmland birds.
A total of around £300,000 in funding is set to be awarded, with grants of between £5,000 and £15,000 to help landowners and users to deliver projects that will create, restore, and enhance habitats for birds that use farmland for cover, nesting and to find food.
Examples of how the funding could be spent include:
- Planting wildflowers along field edges, creating meadows, and leaving areas of rough grass
- Planting native hedges, trees, and shrubs, and enhancing existing hedges
- Making ponds and introducing marginal planting
- Providing places for birds to nest
- Giving extra food to farmland birds during the winter