A new ecology initiative led by the Crown Estate called The Wild West End is linking Regent’s Park and St James’s Park with green stepping stones to encourage more birds, bats and insects to the built-up busy streets. This is the first city centre ecology project worldwide to be conceived.
London’s West End may not seem the ideal habitat for wildlife, but wrens, thrushes and bats are making it their home. Black redstarts, common pipistrelle and the rarer Leisler’s bat, pied wagtails, song thrushes and wrens are among those recorded in a recent survey of buildings around Regent Street, Haymarket and Piccadilly Circus. Green roofs, planters, beehives and bird and bat boxes will be planted or installed to provide a permanent habitat for London’s wildlife as part of the project. The Crown Estate whose £8.1bn property portfolio is one of the largest in the UK, said it would create a “thriving ecosystem in the heart of the West End”. For further information, click here.
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