A NEW native woodland at a North Yorkshire zoo will act as a lasting tribute to the Queen in her Diamond Jubilee year as well as providing a haven for wildlife and food for the zoo’s animals.
During a two-day community planting event organised by the University of York research interns, about 20 volunteers planted 2,000 native trees next to the camel enclosure at Flamingo Land, near Pickering.
A joint initiative between the theme park and the Woodland Trust, the planting was part of the trust’s Jubilee Woods and MOREwoods schemes which are creating new areas of native woodland across the UK.
The university has also been working with the trust to create a Diamond Wood under the Jubilee Woods project on its £750 million campus extension at Heslington East.
The only one of its kind in North Yorkshire, the 60-acre site on the university’s new Heslington East campus at Kimberlow Hill was chosen by the Woodland Trust to be one of just 60 Diamond Woods in the UK – one for each year of the Queen’s reign.
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