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Revitalise Cornwall's Woods!
Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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Aim
We want to see Cornwall's woods realise their potential as a vibrant, biodiverse and resilient habitat!
Our vision is to bring Cornish woodland back to life!
Neglect and lack of sustainable management is causing the habitat value and biodiversity in our woods to decline.
Poor tree species diversity and uniform woodland structure means birds, insects, mammals and plants no longer have the wide range of habitats they need to thrive.
In the woods we are currently restoring, we are seeing a return to the abundance of life our woodland can support...
However, difficult access is preventing us from bringing this vital habitat work to more of our local woods.
Through the purchase of a specialist small scale forestry tractor, this project will bring more of this sensitive restoration work to the less accessible Cornish woods.
Access is the single biggest obstacle to whether habitat restoration can take place.
Most woods in Cornwall are steep and have limited trackways. The restoration of these woods requires specialist equipment, appropriate to our wooded valleys and hills.
A light and low impact tractor will enable us to restore woods where the use of standard large tractors would damage the soils and require impactful track building.
It will also allow the timber extracted during this restoration to be used as a vital resource to help our communities become fossil fuel free.
Sustainable timber from more well-managed woods will replace carbon heavy concrete and steel in local building projects and replace coal, oil and gas for heating local homes in winter.
Your help will directly contribute to:
Making our local woods biodiverse and thriving habitats.
Your help will allow us to restore the habitat over approximately 100 acres of currently neglected woodland, much of it within the nationally recognised Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Increasing woodland resilience in the face of climate change and tree disease.
Your help will widen the range of tree species in these woods, reducing the impact of climate change and new tree diseases.
Making our communities carbon neutral and self sufficient.
Your help will provide our villages and towns with a locally grown timber resource that locks up carbon and replaces carbon heavy building materials, fossil fuel heating and imported timber from distant industrial forestry.
Save Our Wild Isles Community Fund has provided £13,312 of match funding
Cornwall Council: Cornwall Climate and Nature Fund has provided £5,000 of match funding
Aviva Employee Giving has provided £360 of match funding
Aviva Employee Giving has provided £160 of match funding
Solus Employee Giving has provided £30 of match funding
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made