Create or Restore a Pond

Ponds are a vitally important habitat for wildlife and ponds in agricultural landscapes support more freshwater wildlife than rivers and streams.  Many rare and familiar plants and animals depend on ponds for at least part of their life cycle and ponds also provide breeding areas for frogs and toads, shelter for water voles and otters and feeding areas for bats and birds.

Many ponds have been destroyed over the past few decades so it is vital that we create new ponds to balance these losses and increase the total number of countryside ponds.

You can learn how to create a new pond and manage a farm pond by downloading one of the FWAG information leaflets below.  Pond Conservation, is a national charity dedicated to creating and protecting ponds and the wildlife that they support.  Their "Million Ponds Project" will create an extensive network of new ponds across the UK and all new ponds created can be registered on the site.  Free information leaflets are also available from them giving advice on how to create a new pond.

• Farm pond management (PDF 568KB)
• Creating new ponds (PDF 369KB)

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