Diggers have begun creating a vast new wetland area in the Great Fen in Cambridgeshire.

Today The Wildlife Trusts launch 30 by 30 - a bold mission to start putting nature into recovery across at least 30% of land and sea by 2030.

The country's only rotary ditcher machine has been hard at work in the Nene Valley creating a swathe of ditches and channels - new habitats for breeding and overwintering wading birds

An area of Cambridgeshire's Great Fen has benefited with a generous grant from Viridor Credits and the Landfill Communities Fund