Living Landscapes Community action
Most importantly, we’ll be working with the people that live and work within the project area, encouraging and supporting them to do what they can to help our wild pollinators. We’ve already had a fantastic response from schools, town and parish councils, various special interest groups and churches who all wish to be involved. We’ll also provide training opportunities for young and disadvantaged people by working with organisations such as Beaumont College, Carlisle Youth Zone and Mencap.
Over the next three years, a range of practical workshops and opportunities will include conservation volunteering, habitat restoration activities, arts and craſts events and pollinator-friendly gardening activities. Working in partnership with Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre we’ll provide identification courses to enable species recording, and we’ll be developing an online pollinator atlas for north Cumbria to enable people to add their pollinator sightings so that we can begin to build up an accurate record of pollinator populations in Cumbria.
Get involved
Recent evidence suggests that as litle as 1–2% of flower-rich habitat – even a garden or park – is enough to have a significant impact on populations of wild bumblebees. Small increases in flowering plants in spring and summer can have a big effect, raising the survival rate of queen bumblebees by up to four times. By spreading the word, and encouraging everyone to grow pollinator-friendly plants, together we can make a real difference.
We very much value and appreciate the support of the National Lotery Heritage Fund, Highways England and Cumbria Community Foundation, and the help of our partners including Copeland and Allerdale Councils, Solway AONB, Buterfly Conservation, the National Trust, Florence Arts, Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre and Buglife, in making the development phase of this project possible.
The Get Cumbria Buzzing project will start in May 2019; if you wish to be involved in any way, please get in touch and look out for our events at
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/whats-on
The buff-tailed bumblebee has a short tongue so prefers open flowers
for nectar Photo: Jon Hawkins – Surrey Hills Photography
The project area stretches along the B-Line network from Penrith in the east through the iconic uplands of the Lake District, and along an extensive coastline. It is composed of a 3km wide corridor that covers a distance of 162km, providing a total project area of approximately 486km2
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