Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

• In Hampshire, 34 new 10-year agreements specifically aimed at biodiversity conservation came into DEFRA’s Countryside Stewardship/Environmentally Sensitive Area schemes in 2003. In addition there were 8 renewal 10-year agreements.
  
  
• The 2003 agreements will fund the management, restoration or recreation of several UK priority habitats, including:
  almost 200 km of ancient or species rich hedgerows
  85 hectares of cereal field margins
  30 km of chalk rivers
  95 hectares of coastal and floodplain grazing marsh
  9 hectares of fens
  3 hectares of lowland beech and yew woodland
  294 hectares of lowland calcareous grassland
  104 hectares of lowland heathland
  338 hectares of lowland meadows
  41 hectares of lowland wood pasture & parkland
  

Contact: Ian Curtis ian.curtis@DEFRA.gsi.gov.uk