These habitats are few and far between in Great Britain now due to our ever-growing population. They are one of the UK's most threatened habitats in fact around ninety-seven percent of meadows have been lost since the late 1940's. This has resulted in loss of 'microhabitats', which are small, specialized areas such as a clump of grass or an underground burrow, and in turn species numbers have declined. Many areas of wet meadow or wet grassland have been drained to allow modern intensive farming to take place, and some areas have been drained so they can be built on.

Some may be periodically saturated usually in the winter months or it may be a permanently wet habitat where the water level is generally at or just below the surface. They are often low-lying areas with poor drainage, which have networks of drainage canals that often support diverse aquatic flora and faunas. All wetlands require some degree of management to prevent them drying out and developing as scrub. We have added a series of ditches and shallow pools, known as scrapes to our meadow to help encourage the wildlife that lives there.