The conservation of ’Culm grassland’, a rapidly-declining grassland limited in England to just a few remaining fragments in Cornwall and Devon, is to be stepped up by Plantlife, thanks to £55,700 of National Lottery funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Culm grassland, already severely restricted in distribution ,  is now increasingly-rare; 92% has been lost in the past 100 years, with 48% disappearing between 1984 and 1991 alone - partly as a result of the rapid intensification of farming.

Plantlife’s 46-acre extension of the Greena Moor nature reserve between Bude and Launceston, home to one of the largest surviving fragments of Culm grassland in England allows Plantlife, Europe’s largest conservation charity dedicated to wildflowers and other flora, and partner Cornwall Wildlife Trust to restore this species-rich habitat on an expansive scale.