This crucial role will ensure the smooth running of a two-year project. This project is part of a pioneering Landscape Recovery Pilot scheme, which will be essential to achieve our environmental objectives, whilst rejuvenating our beautiful landscapes for the enjoyment of the public and sustaining thriving rural economies. The Landscape Recovery is one of three new environmental land management schemes and is being piloted across England from 2022. The aim is to enhance our natural environment and support ecosystem recovery through long-term, largescale, land-use change and habitat restoration projects. There are two themes for the first round of the pilots and the Darent Valley Project is under restoring England’s streams and rivers: improving water quality, biodiversity and adapting