Rewilding meadows for the King's coronation
On 31 March, English Heritage announced that it would restore and create wild meadows surrounding 100 historic sites in England to celebrate the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. English Heritage is a charity that looks after historic monuments, buildings and places across England.
John Watkins, English Heritage’s head of gardens, told The Guardian newspaper, “The one shocking figure is that 97% of meadows that were recorded in the 1930s had been lost by the mid-1980s... that’s not just a biological disaster, it’s a cultural disaster.”
Historic sites like Stonehenge in Wiltshire were once blanketed in wild orchids, while St Mary’s Church in Kempley in the Forest of Dean was home to a locally native daffodil, which is now very rare.
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