Reintroductions ‘BOOM’ Millom slag heap Hodbarrow Ulverston Grange- over-Sands Humphrey Head Barrow slag banks
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Carnforth Morecambe Bay Morecambe A map of the sites in south Cumbria where 12 species will be reintroduced as part of the BOOM project
Dr Mic Mayhew, Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Cumbria, reveals details of an exciting new project to reintroduce several plants and animals to sites in South Cumbria.
Back On Our Map (BOOM) is an ambitious new project which aims to re-engage communities in South Cumbria with their natural environment, by restoring the landscape and reintroducing a suite of locally
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threatened or extinct native species. The project partners include the University of Cumbria, Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Natural England, the Forestry Commission and Morecambe Bay Partnership, with financial support from the National Lotery Heritage Fund.
We all recognise the urgent and interrelated problems of biodiversity loss and the associated epidemic of mental and physical health problems in our schools, universities and communities. We live in a country where 11–15-year- olds spend half of their waking lives in front of a screen consumed by digital media and increasingly
divorced from nature. BOOM hopes to address these problems by using species reintroductions as a tool to raise awareness of the threats and challenges facing our natural ecosystems, and by finding ways to wrestle people away from screens and engage them in a range of nature-based activities.
The project area extends along Morecambe Bay from Barrow-in-Furness in the west to Arnside and Silverdale AONB in the east and Grizedale Forest in the north. Paradoxically, many of the most deprived communities in South Cumbria are disconnected from the natural world despite living adjacent to
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transforming lives and landscapes in South Cumbria
Ruslands valley and Grizedale
Kendal Whitbarrow Laterbarrow
Roudsea Wood and Mosses National Nature Reserve
Coldwell Meadow, Landscape Trust Nature Reserve
Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve
Eaves Wood Warton Crag Witherslack Mosses
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