Cadland Estate has five miles of coastline with nature reserves, beaches, mud flats, fresh and salt water marshes. Inland there are heather heaths and ancient woodland interspersed with farmland. It is a varied patchwork of different habitats, with an extraordinary abundance of rare biodiversity.

Conservation is right at the very heart of Cadland, with its varied patchwork of precious habitats providing a unique opportunity to enhance the bio-diversity and carbon sequestration capability of the Estate.

Cadland Estate’s coastline is of outstanding importance with coastal and marine habitats attracting flocks of migrant water birds. We plan to create and build a saline lagoon which acts as a sanctuary for wintering birds. The undisturbed shingle beach, (an internationally important Nature Reserve), is one of the last places in the Solent to provide a nesting habitat for the Ringed Plover, a bird recently added to the Red List of Birds of Conservation Concern. Cadland Beach is now the only site left with Portland spurge (Euphorbia portlandica) on the Hampshire coast. The beach also supports a range of shingle plants including probably the largest population of the rare Little Robin (Geranium purpureum ssp forsteri) in the country, alongside carpets of coastal plants such as Sea Campion, Sea Thrift, the Nationally Scarce Catillaria Atomarioides and the Nationally rare Lecanora salina.