The Cambridgeshire Fens was once home to the top five percent of the UK's most fertile soil, playing host to a fantastic array of wildlife as well as providing a sustainable food source for its inhabitants. They have become one of the most extensively transformed stretches of land in the country.

The Fenlands were originally marshlands that have now become large flat agricultural plains, growing less fertile with every passing season. In some places where there was once 20 metres of peat there are now 20 centimetres, all because of the intensive cultivation of high-yield crops. You can see where the land has literally sunk from over-farming.

Generations of steadily improving farming equipment scatter the area like giant memorials to a once abundant ecosystem, as people work out ever more efficient ways to reap what they sow. Like any other fossil fuel, once the area has been depleted of its natural resource - peat - it will never return to its original condition.

However, there are green shoots emerging. The Wicken Fen 100 year vision is a conservation project that reclaims large swathes of depleted land from the farmers, then slowly changes the land into a wetland habitat. Despite the fact that the fens will never be able to revert back to its original state, their efforts will encourage the survival of many endangered species that live in and flock to the area.