The Lake District Protection Project aims to create enabling conditions to promote natural processes, such as forest regeneration, free-flowing rivers, herbivory, and carnivory, to impact ecosystems and preserve the area’s rich biodiversity. The key realisation is that losses of habitat in the National Park has regressed to a point where wildlife is left clinging on in small, fragmented pockets of land such as nature reserves. Many of these habitats are too small to remain viable in the longer term.
Now is the time to take proactive rather than reactive approaches, which is why we follow ecological principles to work with nature and help obtain sustainable results. Examples of these principles are: