Chief Executive of Natural England visiting some projects today (Wednesday 13 September 2023)
In 2021 the eyes of the world were on Carbis Bay in Cornwall as world leaders gathered for the G7 environment summit. Now, two years on, the county is reaping the benefits with more than 40 projects supporting nature recovery on land and at sea in mid-Cornwall.
The G7 Legacy Project for Nature Recovery is an ambitious five-year plan based in mid-Cornwall and run in partnership with Natural England and Cornwall Wildlife Trust. In its first two years, £1.6m has gone into 42 projects, not only improving the prospects for nature in the area, but also creating sustainable jobs. The project has supported new green apprenticeships, worked with businesses to promote sustainable tourism and encouraged hundreds of people to volunteer in their local communities and to get out and about in the countryside.
The projects are as wide-ranging as work to reconnect and restore habitats and ecosystems, providing new access opportunities to the countryside, conserving rare species, through to improving water quality and capturing carbon. The programme’s aim is to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, mitigate and adapt to climate change and improve health and wellbeing of local communities through increased access to nature. .
The first two years of the project has seen over 1,000 additional hectares of private and public land managed for nature restoration, 18 metres of Cornish hedge restored, research done on reducing seabird bycatch numbers through new prevention measures, a reduction in flooding with river restoration and links to surrounding wet woodland created, improved management of wildlife habitats on farms and blue carbon reports on seagrass in St Austell Bay. For people who want to experience more of the area, there has been 10km of trail improvement and nearly 1,700 people have been involved in 370 volunteering and engagement events.
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Posted On: 13/09/2023