An escape route is to be built for birds and animals fleeing the effects of climate change.
As temperatures rise the wildlife highway will help them find the habitats they need to survive.
The ambitious £500,000 five-year project is aimed at ensuring creatures such as the otter, water vole and wading birds can survive in a changing environment.
The Severn Vale Living Landscape project will be developed at the Severn Vale in Gloucestershire, which is one of the country's most important wetland sites and a priority area for conservation.
The ambitious scheme by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, will take shape within the floodplain of the River Severn, extending from Berkeley in the south to beyond Tewkesbury approximately 30 miles north east.
At its widest between Stonehouse and Rodley, it will be up to 10 miles across. It will run along both sides of the River Severn, thinner in the north and wider in the south as the river nears the estuary.
Its main aim is to join up wetland habitats in the Severn Vale that have become fragmented as land use has changed, leaving wildlife stranded and unable to move north as temperatures rise.
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