The Alderney Grazing Animal Project will mean the re-introduction of cattle grazing in some of the island's most spectacular countryside.

It is designed to open up land which has become choked with undergrowth making it inaccessible to walkers and many wildlife species.

Wildlife trust manager Roland Gauvain said this method had been used in the UK for a while.

"Unfortunately it's been much harder to develop in the Channel Islands," he said.

"In fact, one of our advisors on the project has been working with farmers in Jersey on conservation grazing, but there is always an economic balance.

"They have to use the farmers themselves for doing the grazing and they have to do it on an economic footing whereas we are trying to do it purely on a conservation footing."