Landscapes, parks and nature

A Havant stream rich in local history was the focus of a local community project with outdoor activities, leisure and educational events.

The Wildwatch project encouraged local people and visitors alike to map and record the wildlife that is hopping, buzzing and flying all over this area of outstanding natural beauty.

This project aims to restore and raise awareness of an important biodiversity habitat, home to a range of rare species.

Do you know your annelids from your arachnids? This training project aimed to increase the number of people skilled in recording invertebrates across Shropshire.

Thousands of new volunteers and visitors have been able to enjoy Minsmere nature reserve in Suffolk as a result of this multimillion pound redevelopment programme.

Protection of the marine environment received a huge boost along the South East England coastline.

Lightshaw Meadows was purchased in order to conserve and protect a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and increase public access to it.

Your Shore worked across five Voluntary Marine Conservation Areas (VMCAs) in Cornwall to provide activities to help local people understand why they must look after the sea and its wildlife.

Disadvantaged 16-25 year olds took part in a successful training programme in dry stone walling across the North East.

People learned about, recorded and became actively involved in caring for the fascinating built and natural heritage on their doorstep.

The four-year Chiltern Commons project came to a successful conclusion having conserved habitats and historic features on 26 areas of common land.

This project has been designed to increase people’s physical access to heritage trees across Kent.