£35,000 will be spent making a South Cumbrian nature reserve more accessible.
Thousands of metres of boardwalk will be installed at Meathop Moss, near Witherslack.
The Cumbria Wildlife Trust has been restoring the peat bog habitat there since 2012 - it's home to unusual plants and rare butterflies and moths.
The cash has come from a grant by the SITA Trust.
Hazel Jones, Senior Fundraising Officer for Cumbria Wildlife Trust says: “Meathop Moss has been a nature reserve since 1919 and it continues to be one of the best examples of raised peat bog in the country. The peat bog has unusual plants like Sphagnum mosses, cotton grasses, bog rosemary, bog asphodel, cranberry and sundew. Entomologists come from far and wide to experience some of the 200 species of butterfly and moth that have been recorded here.”
“Thanks to this generous grant from SITA Trust, 2,000 reed and 1,000 willow plants will be planted by volunteers alongside the new boardwalk to create a natural screen that will reduce visitor disturbance to wildfowl in the fen and pools. Regular volunteering events will be held to assist with this project and the Reserve Warden will lead guided walks at the site to inspire people about nature and the special wildlife at Meathop Moss.”
Marianne Ivin of SITA Trust added “This project has been funded through our Accessing Nature fund and is an exciting project that will allow the public to access areas of the reserve that have previously not been possible. We are really looking forward to seeing how the project progresses. SITA Trust provides grants through the Landfill Communities Fund. This important source of funding has been available since 1997 and has provided such worthy projects with more than £1.4 billion.”