MEMBERS of the Warrington Nature Conservation Forum (WNCF)learned about the Carbon Landscape Project at their annual meeting.
Guest speaker was Jenny Griggs, the carbon landscapes community engagement officer for the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside.
She said one of the aims for the Carbon Landscape Project is to link up the mosses and coalfields of parts of Manchester and Warrington.
They will be attempting to map for visitors a wildlife corridor with a 26-mile central spine and involve volunteer groups and individuals over the next five years.
It had been estimated that more than 100,000 people lived within a 10-minute walk of the Carbon Project.
Chairman Geoff Settle pointed out that the WNCF had suggested linking up wildlife sites as part of the Warrington Local Plan.
The meeting was held at the Fiddlers Ferry Power Station educational resource centre which, Mr Settle said, was a great resource used by many schools in Warrington and Widnes.
More details of the Carbon Landscape Project can be found at http://www.carbonlandscape.org.uk
Details of the Warrington Nature Conservation Forum can be found at their new website, www.WNCF.co.uk
Warrington Borough Council is one of the 22 partners in the Carbon Landscape Project.
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Thanks Dave and Gary for being big supporters of Warrington Wildlife.
Good to see some positive action being taken to protect wildlife although ironic that WBC have attached themselves to this project when they have so little regard for ecology – witness the sad sight of the start of mass mature woodland and ancient hedgerows being felled on Omega today by the primary school which WBC’s planning officer for the Westbrook area has approved. I could have cried watching the old oaks come down.
More positively however, the WNCF website looks excellent and the planning link is a great idea.