Titchwell Marsh Coastal habitat protection (LIFE TaCTICS)

Description:

The purpose of the EU LIFE funded Titchwell Marsh Coastal Change Project was to provide flood defences for designated habitats in the short, medium and long term, whilst minimising impacts on the designated habitats outside the flood defences.  

Project objectives focused on:

• protecting freshwater habitats from coastal erosion destruction; and
• mitigating/compensating for the inevitable loss of important brackish marsh.

The project would implement a ‘managed realignment’ scheme at Titchwell Marsh in response to climate change. This intended to: strengthen two seawalls and protect the freshwater habitats for at least the next 50 years; and breach a third, seaward wall with the loss of the brackish marsh. To compensate for the loss of 11 ha of this habitat, and, in particular, to provide breeding sites for avocet, several islands were planned within the freshwater marsh.

Project information

Lead

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Partners

No

Source of funding

LIFE