Tag: National Trust
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NHS Wild Wellbeing Across The Lizard
Summary Over the past twelve months, the National Trust, in partnership with the NHS Mental Health Support Team and Natural England, has had the pleasure of welcoming parents and their primary-aged children to a series of free Family Wellbeing Sessions at Penrose and Kennack. These sessions were designed to help families explore emotional and mental…
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Gunwalloe: Winnianton Farm Landscape Project
Summary Phase 2 of a project to further restore the landscape through demolition of inappropriate buildings, adaptive reuse of traditional buildings, improved visitor experience (new accessible toilets and café), increased understanding of local heritage and improvements to the surrounding farmland through habitat creation and extended public access. Progress Since 2018, the National Trust and local…
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Historic bones and teeth discovered at Lizard Point
Excavations have been underway at the National Trust’s Lizard Point in Cornwall after a young visitor found a historic tooth which was identified as human. The discovery Arthur, aged seven, found a collection of teeth in the ground while exploring Lizard Point in August 2025. He showed them to Wildlife Watchpoint volunteer Ken Wallace who,…
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Nature recovery on The Lizard
The following is the text of a National Trust press release, issued on 27/3/2024, reporting on a landscape-scale project to conserve rare species on The Lizard, funded by Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme. Nature recovery on the Lizard is working from the ground up Down on the Lizard, in deepest Cornwall, a landscape-scale coastal project…
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Funding received for the National Trust’s Lizard Rarities Project
The Lizard is one of the most biodiverse areas in the country, renowned for unique assemblages of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens – many of which are confined to the Lizard. However, despite the Lizard retaining large areas of semi-natural habitat, many of these species are in decline due to the impacts of climate change,…