Editing Ouse Washes (section)

===Extensions===
Increased summer flooding led to declines in the numbers of breeding waders from the 1970s onwards, and to counteract this areas of former farmland adjacent to the washes were acquired and converted to wet grassland. The WWT's Lady Fen is adjacent to the Welney Wetland Centre and was converted from farmland between 2007 and 2013.<ref name="ladyfen">{{cite web |title=Lady Fen |url=https://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/welney/experience/lady-fen/ |publisher=WWT |access-date=15 August 2022}}</ref>  The RSPB, WWT and WTBCN have also modified land adjacent to the RSPB reserve. The eventual aim is to expand this to {{convert|1000|ha}}, although as of 2022 only  {{convert|135|ha}} had been acquired. The total additional area of the "new"  meadows is {{convert|350|ha}}.<ref name= BB115/>