What is the RSPBs Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project?
It will be an exciting landmark conservation and engineering project for the 21st Century on a scale never before attempted in the UK, and the largest of its type in Europe. It will demonstrate how land can be managed to help the coast and its wildlife adapt in the face of climate change and accelerated sea level rise. The RSPB is working to transform a large area of arable farmland at Wallasea Island, in the heart of an internationally important estuary, back into coastal marshland. This will create a wetland mosaic of mudflats and saltmarshes, shallow lagoons and pastures. These will be criss-crossed by bunds along which visitors will be able to access much of this new ‘Wild Coast’.It will demonstrate how land can be managed to help the coast and its wildlife adapt in the face of climate change Because the land is very low-lying, clay, chalk and gravel excavated from the Crossrail project will be brought to Wallasea by ship. This will create new habitats and minimise the effect of th
