Call for volunteers to pull up Himalayan balsalm in Rydal
Volunteers are needed to help remove Himalayan balsalm across Rydal.
For the third year running, conservation charity Friends of the Lake District, in partnership with South Cumbria Rivers Trust, is calling for people to help with a mass removal of the invasive species.
Ruth Kirk, Friends of the Lake District’s landscape engagement officer said: “Over the past two years, a willing army of volunteers have removed hundreds of thousands of these non-native plants.
“The difference is obvious in the areas that we’ve hit hard. But Himalayan balsam is a pesky and persistent blighter; it creeps back again.