About a third of the land we manage is open ground. This provides a diverse range of habitats for a huge number of species.
Much of this open ground exists because it is too high or too wet to plant. In other cases we're deliberately leaving areas of open ground in newly created forests to conserve important habitats.
We’re also working to restore some of our rarest open habitats, including lowland raised bog and blanket bogs. We carry out conservation management of wildflower meadows and coastal sand dunes.