Groundbreaking has started in the Museum's gardens, which are being redeveloped into an urban oasis.
The works are part of the wider Urban Nature Project, which is working across the UK to develop new techniques and technologies to help us better understand urban nature, creating a new national learning programme to encourage children to get engaged with nature, and support our urban wildlife.
The works have begun on the transformation of the Museum's gardens in central London.
Over the next few weeks work will start in earnest on the five-acres of grounds that surround the Museum. It will be turned into a welcoming, accessible and biologically diverse green space in the heart of London, including the newly improved wildlife garden acting as a living research laboratory, an immersive journey through the evolution of life on Earth and a learning and activity centre.
In order to protect and preserve the well-established wildlife garden, the team have been working closely with scientists and gardeners to help maintain and eventually boost the urban biodiversity already present on site.
This involves a design that is both sustainable and works with the existing landscape. The team will be translocating the pond, involving moving the plants and other wildlife that live there, into holding tanks for the duration of the works. They will then be moved into the new pond once it is complete, helping to rapidly recreate a thriving urban wetland.
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Posted On: 12/09/2022