Wildlife begins to flourish at HS2’s largest habitat creation site 🐝🦋🌿
Take a closer look at HS2’s Green Corridor’s largest habitat creation project, turning a current construction site into a thriving chalk grassland habitat of international importance in the Chiltern Hills 🏞️.
Chalk grassland 🪨🌿 is a calcareous habitat found across south-east England and the Isle of Wight. This 90-hectare initiative seeds chalk grassland into re-profiled soils, using nutrient-poor subsoils and chalk from tunnelling, combined with recycled concrete and aggregates from construction works ♻️.
The project sits alongside new woodlands🌳, wood pasture 🐑, and wetlands 💧, including almost 65,000 trees and shrubs across 32 species and nearly 3.5 km (nearly 2 miles) of hedgerows on the western slopes of the River Colne.
The result is enhanced biodiversity, improved habitat connectivity, and a clear demonstration of how large-scale infrastructure can regenerate landscape and support nature.
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0:00 Where is the habitat?
0:29 What is the project?
1:37 Designing the area
2:13 Using the right type of soil
3:57 Tree planing, fencing and user routes
4:45 What’s next?
5:17 Improving the area before
5:49 A design led project
6:24 A naturalistic landscape
6:44 Lasting legacy
7:25 Final thoughts
7:56 Outro
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