MOTHER Nature has been given a helping hand to flourish in York’s Rowntree Park.
The environmental charity BTCV and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) worked together to make the island in the park’s lake more wildlife-friendly.
BTCV organised the Employee Volunteering Day for 20 Defra employees, who were set the task of installing coir logs around the park’s island.
The logs will be planted with wetland-loving plants to increase the biodiversity in the lake.
BTCV project co-ordinator Ruth Cantrell said “BTCV staff and Defra volunteers all enjoyed themselves and I felt a huge sense of satisfaction that we were able to increase the wildlife potential of the Rowntree Park lake.
“This is a great project and being a park will allow all involved, as well as the public, the chance to see how the ‘logs’ and plants develop and become colonised by all sort of creatures such as dragonflies, snails and beetles.”
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