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Living Levels Legacy Project

• Living Levels Legacy Management Plan

• Gwent Levels: Our vision for the future

Landscape Conservation Action Plan

Background strategy documents, studies and reports produced as part of a two year Development Phase and the final Living Levels Programme:

• Introduction and Executive Summary

• Introducing the Gwent Levels Landscape

• Threats and opportunities in the landscape

• Statement of Significance: What makes the Gwent Levels special

• Scheme Delivery and governance

• Development of the Living Levels programme and projects

• LCAP Project Summaries

• Appendix 1: Landscape Character Assessment

• Appendix 2: Regional Green Infrastructure Strategy

• Appendix 3: Visitor Experience Destination Management Plan

Sustaining the Gwent Levels

Documents produced for the Sustaining the Gwent Levels Sustainable Management Scheme:

• Level Advice: Advisory booklet (PDF 6.7MB)

• Sustaining the Gwent Levels Sustainable Management Scheme: Summary report (PDF 2.5MB)

• Wetland Landscape Restoration and Maintenance in the Gwent Levels – Costings (PDF 14MB)

• Nest box project - Final report (PDF 740KB)

• PES and the Gwent Levels (PDF 2.0MB)

• A resilient future for the Gwent Levels: Interim report (PDF 700KB)

• Monitoring Sustaining the Gwent Levels (PDF 8.5MB)

• Monitoring Sustaining the Gwent Levels: Methodology (PDF 1.5MB)

• Summary of farmer interviews (PDF 840KB)

• Farm case studies (PDF 1.9MB)

• Underdrainage and Farming: Current State –Future Management (PDF 1.1MB)

• Investigating ditch biodiversity (PDF 5.4MB)

• Ecohydrological studies (PDF 11.6MB)

Miscellaneous

• Gwent Levels Traditional Orchard Invertebrate Study 2019 - 21 (PDF 7.6MB)

(Links to external documents)

• Greater Gwent State of Nature (PDF, MonLife)

• The Gwent Levels: Evolution of a wetland landscape (PDF, Archaeological Data Service)

• Landscape Profile: Gwent Levels (PDF, Gwent Wildlife Trust)

• Archaeology in the Severn Estuary (PDF, Severn Estuary Research Committee)