Work has begun on one of the UK’s largest active wetland restoration sites in the Great Fen in Cambridgeshire. Speechly’s Farm – an area of 136 hectares – will help reconnect two fragmented areas of ancient fen for the first time in centuries, making it one of the largest active wetland restoration sites in the UK over the next 12 months. The plans include a 6.5 hectare trial wet farming site. Wet farming – or paludiculture – is a sustainable way of farming with a higher water table which locks carbon in the ground, protects peat soils, creates habitat for…