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Land Trust Annual Review 2020
“We recognise that our parks and green spaces
have a huge role to play in improving the
environment and biodiversity of local communities”
Environment Wildlife and
biodiversity
thrives on our
parks and
and biodiversity Nature Space of the Year green spaces
Carr Lodge was named Nature Space of the Year
at the Land Trust awards, recognising the incredible
transformation of the site over the last eight years.
The value of the Land
Trust’s green spaces to When the Land Trust took over ownership and
management in 2012 the wet grassland was in very poor
the natural environment condition and was heavily overgrazed by ponies. Hard
continues to grow. With work and careful investment by our managing partners,
an increasing demand Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, has transformed the grassland
for new housing and introducing an innovative gravity fed water pump, allied to
grey infrastructure our a new system of wet ditches.
work in this area is vital The overall impact on the site has been nothing short of
in protecting species remarkable, with a recent survey finding 372 invertebrate
that are vital to our species living on site. This included six nationally scarce
planet’s ecosystem. and two notable species.
In addition 75 species of bird bred on the site in 2019.
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