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Johnstone Primary School from Kirkcudbright won the environmental challenge competition for their design of a wildlife garden. They then helped create it at the Allanton Peace Centre in Nithsdale.


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A local community group are creating a bog garden at Castle Hill Park in Whithorn.


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“The enthusiasm, dedication and hard work of community partners, volunteers and local residents have been really motivating.”


Over at Colvend, the biodiversity initiative involved planting a new community


orchard at the primary school. Pupils and teachers worked with the council’s national scenic area officer, a local poet and countryside volunteers to plant trees and hedging, make paths and write poems for a specially commissioned reader’s chair. This work has resulted in an outdoor classroom for pupils and a place of quiet for the community. “We ended up working with 28 partner organisations across the region,” Ed


Forrest remarked. “Everyone has shown a passion for enhancing and celebrating the landscape, wildlife and environment that help to make Dumfries and Galloway such a special place, and also to encourage visitors to the area. “The enthusiasm, dedication and hard work of community partners, volunteers


and local residents have been really motivating. It confirms that Dumfries and Galloway's coasts, landscapes and wildlife have a huge role in supporting both the quality of life of the people who live here and many aspects of the local economy.” You can find out more about the various Sulwath Connections projects at www.sulwathconnections.org


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