Kris Hallenga, founder of the breast cancer awareness charity CoppaFeel!, is the latest personality to feature in Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s high-profile ’My Wild Life’ campaign which aims to increase awareness of the importance of Cornwall’s unique natural environment in our lives. 

She was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 23 and has lived with terminal cancer for the last seven years.

Kris said: ’Living with cancer means adapting to a new ‘normal’. Some days this can be easy, manageable, do-able, especially when you surround yourself with people who make having cancer okay. But sometimes I need to escape everything, every thought about having cancer, every aspect of my life, and the one place I have managed to do this is in Cornwall.  

’You can’t beat a blustery walk on the beach to clear your mind of frightening thoughts and nothing is more therapeutic than a fresh stroll through woodland when summer says good bye and autumn colours burst into life. Cornwall has always been a very special escape for me and I feel lucky that it’s part of my life with cancer.’

Kris’s portrait entitled ‘my therapy’ features her at the Trust’s Kennall Vale Nature Reserve and was taken by Cornish photographer Jack Johns. As part of the My Wild Life campaign it will feature at bus stops and other locations throughout the county.

For more information about breast cancer awareness visit www.coppafeel.org