Peatland restoration in the South West has been scaled up hugely over the past 5 years. Working in partnership has enabled holistic monitoring, palaeoecological research, planning and implementing larger and more complex...
James Richards
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Work experience opportunities
We are offering a limited number of work experience opportunities for students aged 16 – 18 years with the Cornwall National Landscape team. This could be just with the team, or we could look to arrange for you to also experience work with one of our 22 partners. Please complete the form and let us know what you’re interested in.
Read morePeatland restoration in the South West: A blueprint for climate resilience
Check out this article, written in partnership with The South West Peatland Partnership, highlighting the importance of protecting the amazing ecosystems of peatlands and what we are doing to help!
Read moreCan you spare 5 minutes for Cornish hedges? Take the survey
Our Cornish hedges are more than boundaries — they’re wildlife corridors, carbon stores, and a defining feature of our landscape and rich farming history. We’re carrying out market testing to understand the costs involved in maintaining and building Cornish hedges, and we need your insight to shape future support.
Read moreVacancy for Trust Chairperson
The Cornwall National Landscape Trust are looking for a new Chairperson to lead the charity. This is a voluntary role and you are working towards the conservation and enhancement of the protected landscape.
Read moreFrom families to farmers, communities to conservationists, we all have a role to play in protecting this special place.
Practical advice, funding opportunities, and stewardship resources.
Farmer & Landowner Hub
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Community HubCornwall National Landscape is the new name for the protected landscape in Cornwall, endorsed by Natural England. We are still in law a designated area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB). Cornwall National Landscape is 12 separate sections making up one third of Cornwall and our primary purpose remains to conserve and enhance Natural Beauty.
Cornwall is a beautiful part of the world, with a world-renowned coastline, a UNESCO World Heritage Site designation, and a host of natural and heritage features that make it unique and such a draw for visitors and residents alike. National Landscapes are protected landscapes whose distinctive character and natural beauty are so outstanding that it is in the nation’s interest to safeguard them. As such they have been nationally designated by the same legislation as National Parks and have the same status and level of protection.
Cornwall National Landscape is unique, it is the only protected landscape that has 12 separate sections totalling almost a third of Cornwall – an area bigger than Dartmoor National Park.
Our Primary Purpose is to conserve and enhance Natural Beauty.
Our priority is to lead and support projects which deliver under these four key priorities.
Communities in the Cornwall National Landscape live entirely outside the main towns, within villages, hamlets and scattered farmsteads, dispersed throughout the landscape. It’s a mixed picture with areas of extreme wealth and also extreme deprivation.
The beauty and character of the protected landscape is primarily owed to the stewardship of generations of farmers and landowners. It is essential to appreciate, understand and value its unique and diverse character and reinvest in this precious resource in order to continue to conserve and enhance it for future generations.
Set against a backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of the natural world and ecological crisis the current global response to the effects of human impact on nature is insufficient. The ‘richest’ sites for wildlife are too few, too small, too degraded and too disconnected. Nature Recovery must take place to restore and reverse this ecological decline.
The climate emergency is the defining challenge of our time. In January 2019, Cornwall Council declared a climate emergency, recognising the need for urgent action to address the climate crisis. Climate change also poses threats to Cornwall National Landscape's cultural heritage and heritage assets, including historic landscape and seascape.
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A shared strategy for those who live, work and visit the Cornwall National Landscape. It provides guidance to help Government, statutory organisations and any public body to ensure they are fulfilling their Section 85* duty to ‘have regard to the purpose of conserving and enhancing the natural beauty’ of the protected landscape.
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