At the forefront of the ambitious European rewilding programme, Fritton Lake have given over 1,000 acres of land on the Norfolk/Suffolk border back to nature. From 2017, their farmland has gradually been restored to self-management, leading to the protection and restoration of carefully managed sustainable wildland that is now home to free-roaming deer, cattle, water buffalo, sheep, ponies and rich bird and plant life. Their conservation project is committed not just to the protection and restoration of wildland but in connecting people with nature and to motivate and inspire them to become part of their vision. Protecting and restoring wildland is a way in which we can increase biodiversity and support high-functioning ecosystems. When ecosystems are able to function to the best of their ability, carbon is able to be captured and stored by organisms capable of photosynthesis, such as plants and trees.
