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<p>The National Pollinator Strategy sets out actions taken across the country to support
pollinators, underpinned by partnership delivery at the local level. Grow Wild at
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, are working on a range of projects re-creating habitats
across the Midlands.</p><p> </p><p>Natural England are working with conservation organisations
and landowners on the Back from the Brink programme, a £7.7m partnership funded by
the Heritage Lottery Fund and others to put over 100 priority species on the road
to recovery by 2020. Two Back from the Brink projects are supporting pollinators in
the Midlands.</p><p> </p><p>On 28 June, Butterfly Conservation, the project lead,
announced that reintroduction work through the ‘Roots of Rockingham’ project in Rockingham
Forest, Northamptonshire, has seen the Chequered Skipper become the first previously
extinct butterfly to have bred successfully in an English woodland for more than 40
years.</p><p> </p><p>Butterfly Conservation also lead Back from the Brink’s ‘Limestone’s
Living Legacies’ project, working with landowners from the Cotswolds to Warmington
in the West Midlands to restore and manage a network of limestone grassland sites
which will provide suitable habitat to many species of pollinators.</p><p> </p><p>The
Government is also supporting the development and testing of pollinator habitat mapping
to help voluntary bodies and land managers to create pollinator-friendly landscapes.
This includes funding to support Buglife’s ‘B-Lines’ mapping project in the Midlands
and other regions.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018, our Bees’ Needs Champions Awards recognised
a number of councils and community groups from across the Midlands for their own exemplary
work to support pollinators.</p>
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