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Restoring a kelp forest off the Sussex coast, creating new habitat for heat-sensitive butterflies and connecting fractured wetlands for the reintroduction of beavers are among 12 new projects receiving funding to help the UK tackle climate change, the Wildlife Trusts has announced.
Planting new seagrass pastures in the Solent, expanding salt marshes on the Essex coast and restoring peatlands in Cumbria, Durham, Yorkshire, Northumberland and Somerset are some of the âhigh-impactâ schemes that the nature charity said will help mitigate the impact of global heating on land and at sea.
Alongside the projects, backed by nearly £2m of funding from players of the Peopleâs Postcode Lottery, researchers will investigate how best to protect the UKâs ecosystems and biodiversity from rising temperatures, while also paving the way for the reintroduction of locally extinct species in some cases.
VOLUNTEERS from Restoring Shropshire’s Verges Group planted up a section of roadside verge on Sheet Road, in Ludlow with a range of wildflowers, to provide a diverse source of nectar and pollen, to help the U.K.’s declining bees, butterflies and other wildlife. “The success of any project like this, depends on the support of local residents and we realised very early on how important it was to engage with local people,” said Christina O’Neill, one of the volunteers. We delivered over 100 leaflets, inviting comments and have been delighted by the support, with some residents offering to grow plants for later and to help with watering.
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Apr 13, 2021
Volunteers will dig up thousands of bulbs from a Newport beauty spot tomorrow ahead of land development, to relocate them elsewhere.
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The bulb flowers adorn Hutchison s Way
Newport in Bloom chair Karen Claxton said the sad task of removing the bulbs, which have been planted around Hutchison s Way over many years, would mark the end of an era . Volunteers from Newport in Bloom are removing thousands of bulbs to be re-sited in other project areas around Newport, she explained. This well-used and much-loved area has been a lovely entrance to one of the accesses to Hutchison s Way. The area was a huge In Bloom project in 2007/8, when Newport in Bloom joined forces with Telford & Wrekin Council environmental maintenance, Newport Town Council, Shropshire Wildlife Trust and other agencies to create a local beauty spot.