Editing Orchard (section)

==Orchard conservation in the UK==
* [[Natural England]], through its [[Countryside Stewardship Scheme]], [[Environmental Stewardship]] and [[Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme]], gives grant aid and advice for the maintenance, enhancement or re-creation of historical orchards.<ref name="Entry Level Stewardship Handbook">{{cite book |title=Entry Level Stewardship Handbook|year=2008 |publisher=Natural England|isbn=978-1-84754-080-5 |page=29}}</ref>
* The Orchard Link organisation provides advice on how to manage and restore the county of [[Devon]]'s orchards, as well as enabling the local community to use the local orchard produce.<ref name="Orchard Link Organisation">{{cite web|url=http://www.orchardlink.org.uk|title=Welcome to orchardlink.org.uk|work=orchardlink.org.uk}}</ref> An organisation called Orchards Live carries out similar work in North Devon.<ref name="Orchards Live">{{cite web|url=http://www.orchardslive.org.uk/|title=Orchards Live - About Us|work=orchardslive.org.uk}}</ref>
* [[People's Trust for Endangered Species]] (PTES) has mapped every traditional orchard within England and Wales and manages the national inventory for this habitat.<ref>PTES Traditional Orchard Survey</ref>
* The UK Biodiversity Partnership lists traditional orchards and a priority [[UK Biodiversity Action Plan]] habitat.<ref name="UK BAP">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ukbap.org.uk/|title=Working as a Biologist & Safety At Work Accidents UKBAP|date=January 25, 2017}}</ref>
* The [[Wiltshire Traditional Orchards Project]] maps, conserves and restores traditional orchards within Wiltshire, England.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
* An interim report from the [[National Trust]] showed that orchards had reduced in scale from approximately 95,000 hectares in the period 1892–1914, to 41,000 hectares overall in 2022.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dommett |first=Tom |url=https://nt.global.ssl.fastly.net/documents/lost-blossom-study-2022.pdf |title=Blossom over Time: Interim Report |publisher=National Trust |year=2022 |access-date=2022-08-01 |archive-date=2022-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325040354/https://nt.global.ssl.fastly.net/documents/lost-blossom-study-2022.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The campaign #[[BlossomWatch]] is part of a wider programme of work by the Trust to plant 68 new orchards by 2025,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-04-27 |title=National Trust to create 68 orchards by 2025 to boost wildlife |url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/27/national-trust-to-create-68-orchards-by-2025-to-boost-wildlife |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> and four million trees with blossom by 2030.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-03-24 |title=Orchards vanishing from the landscape, says National Trust |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60834796 |access-date=2022-07-19}}</ref>