![]() ![]() ![]() Around one third of all plant species native to the UK can be found in fens - marsh orchids, fen violet, frogbit, greater bladderwort. Despite this huge loss UK fenland remains home to 13,000 different animal and plant species. Today, only around 1 per cent of the fenland that once existed in the UK remains. Once upon a time, it reached as far as north Yorkshire.ĭespite less than 1 % of the original fen habitats remaining in the UK, these fragments still support an exceptional diversity of wildlife, including endangered and unique species. The Fens in Eastern England are the UK’s largest man-made landscape: 400,000 acres of dramatic, flat landscape that stretches hundreds of hectares across Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk and a small part of Suffolk. They’re different from bogs in that they are less acidic, have higher nutrient levels and can support a more diverse collection of plants and animals.įen can occur across the UK’s lowlands but is often only found in small fragments, a few metres square, isolated by intensively worked farmland. ![]() Fens are naturally thick with reeds and grasses, dark with peaty soil and are criss-crossed with scrapes, channels, dykes and ditches. Fens are a type of freshwater peat-forming wetland fed by surface water run-off, ground water and rainfall. ![]()
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