Pevensey Farmers
About Us
The Countryside Stewardship (CS) facilitation fund supports people and organisations that bring farmers, foresters, and other land managers together to improve the local natural environment at a landscape scale. This landscape scale approach can cover land under existing agri-environment and forestry/woodland agreements, common land and land not currently covered by a scheme. It builds on the principles of partnership working to deliver environmental benefits, as demonstrated by various initiatives, including farm clusters and the farmer-led Nature Improvement Area
The Pevensey Levels
is one of the key wet grassland sites in the UK, and of the four priority habitats, two are present, the floodplain grazing marsh and associated fresh water ditches; wet grassland. t is a SSSI ( special site of scientific interest) and is also a RAMSAR (convention of Wetlands) & SAC (Special Areas of Conservation) designated.
A Key Priority
is to extend and link exisiting habitats to increase connectivity and reduce fragmentation – to use finding to buffer access and create natural ecotones to manage predators, introduce wet grassland expertise and rush control, address crassula sp. issue across the levels, whilst contributing to significant improvements in water and air quality, flood and coastal risk management.
