Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Nature Partnership

20/02/2026

🦋 Spring is nearly here - celebrate by helping nature in your area! The next Forest for Cornwall FREE tree giveaway is at Truro Library.
📣 Come and collect a tree to plant in your garden, school or community green space.
🌳 You can choose from rowan, crab apple, hawthorn, hazel, guelder rose, or dogwood. Each tree comes with an information card that’ll give you all the details on planting and maintaining your tree so that it establishes well.
🌟 Trees bring huge benefits to where you live – these include cleaner air, shade in hot summers and shelter from the wind and rain, as well as reducing the risk of flooding.
🐦 Planting a tree helps create ‘green corridors’ that provide homes for birds, insects and animals, and allow them to move between gardens, local parks, green spaces and the surrounding countryside, boosting nature recovery everywhere.
Events have already been held this winter in Callington, Torpoint, Helston, Tintagel, Newquay, Camborne, Saltash, Penzance, Perranporth, Bodmin, and Redruth and have been extremely popular with over 4600 trees collected so far. The next one will be in St. Austell on 28th February

👀Keep an eye on our social media for more details, or go to the News & Events page on our website www.cornwall.gov.uk/forestforcornwall

Remember to bring a bag to take your tree home in!

Forest for Cornwall : Growing Together

20/02/2026

🌼 Did you know that snowdrops are a vital source of food for early-rising pollinators?

Found scattered along river banks and woodlands, snowdrops thrive in damp soil. They bloom in January and February and they’re one of the first signs that warmer weather is on its way, although in warmer winters they’ve been spotted sprouting earlier and earlier.

[Image description: A close-up of a bunch of snowdrops bathed in winter sun.]

19/02/2026

What's your Pledge for Nature? 🦭

Thank you Seal Research Trust for their Pledge and their adorable footage of a seal "bottling", a resting behaviour where seals float vertically in the water with just their nose poking out. Have you spotted a seal bottling lately?

💚 Share your Pledge today and celebrate the difference we are making, together.

🔗 https://letstalk.cornwall.gov.uk/pledge-for-nature

19/02/2026

19/02/2026

16/02/2026

🎯 "Beavers don’t just belong here — they have the potential to transform how our catchments function and how we work with nature to tackle some of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. We’re grateful to every organisation and individual who has helped make this possible.” - Matt Walpole, Deputy Chair of the Local Nature Partnership.

🙌 Thanks to Cornwall Wildlife Trust and their partners, beavers have returned to the wild in Cornwall for the first time in 400 years!

Beavers are one of the priority species in the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Nature Recovery Strategy, and they have huge nature value in creating wetland habitats and slowing water flow to reduce flooding. Demonstrated beaver activity includes:
🌿 Tripling the diversity of pond and water plants
🐸 Increasing frogspawn abundance by over 6000%
🦆 Boosting bird species and abundance up to 100m from beaver sites
🦇 Increasing bat activity by almost 400%
👐 Raising moth species diversity by 24%
🐲 Increasing dragonfly species sevenfold

Check out more actions, species and priorities in the Nature Recovery Strategy and Focus Species Recovery Toolkit!
👉 https://letstalk.cornwall.gov.uk/hub-page/naturerecoverystrategy
👉 https://letstalk.cornwall.gov.uk/focus-species-recovery-toolkit

Video © Beaver Trust

Beaver Trust Natural England Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Environment Agency

15/02/2026

📣Do you live in or near Newquay?🌊

🌳Come and join Forest for Cornwall this Wednesday 18th February (10am - 5pm) for the BIG NEWQUAY TREE PLANT!🌳

It'll be a fun day of planting orchards and native trees to create Trenance Community Woodland. We’re transforming a half hectare green space into a nature-friendly park and we'd love your support!

Come for an hour or stay longer, everyone is welcome to drop in anytime during the day! You can plant your own tree and enjoy seeing it grow to benefit the next generation.

By planting 500 trees including an orchard there will be huge benefits for local wildlife and biodiversity, an increase in tree canopy cover and a beautiful space for everyone in Newquay to enjoy.

For more details and to book a place follow this link:

🔗 bignewquaytreeplant.eventbrite.co.uk

or scan the QR code in the photos to link to the Eventbrite page.

Booking is not a requirement but it will help the team to have a better idea of how many people are coming and ensure that we have enough equipment for everyone.
Please note children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

We'll also be involving local schools, and working with the Friends of Trenance as well as Newquay Town Council, Newquay in Bloom and Newquay BID.

14/02/2026

Show nature love this valentines day 🌳❤️

today by crafting or sharing a green heart and send it to your elected representatives, with a short, personal message about what you want to protect, from nature and green spaces to clean air, warm homes and healthy communities.

Get involved in whatever way works for you:

💚 Invite friends, family, schools, faith groups or workplaces to make green hearts together

💚 Send a green heart postcard to your local politician

💚 Post a photo of your green heart to social media

However you take part, share your photos and stories online using and help show that climate and nature action matters to you 💚

📣 Find out more via The Climate Coalition https://assets.nationbuilder.com/tcc/pages/8323/attachments/original/1768921564/STL_Community_Pack_compressed.pdf?1768921564

📷 Trebah Gardens

12/02/2026

🦋 Welcome the spring by helping nature in your area! The Forest for Cornwall FREE tree giveaways are back this January and February.

📣 Come and collect a FREE tree to plant in your garden, school or community green space.

🌳 You can choose from rowan, crab apple, hawthorn, hazel, guelder rose, or dogwood. Each tree comes with an information card that’ll give you all the details on planting and maintaining your tree so that it establishes well.

🌟 Trees bring huge benefits to where you live – these include cleaner air, shade in hot summers and shelter from the wind and rain, as well as reducing the risk of flooding.

🐦 Planting a tree helps create ‘green corridors’ that provide homes for birds, insects and animals, and allows them to move between gardens, local parks, green spaces and the surrounding countryside, boosting nature recovery everywhere.
Events have already been held this winter in Callington, Torpoint, Helston, Tintagel, Newquay, Camborne, Saltash, Penzance, Perranporth and Bodmin and are proving extremely popular with over 3000 trees collected.

👀Keep an eye on our social media for more details, or go to the News & Events page on our website www.cornwall.gov.uk/forestforcornwall

Remember to bring a bag to take your tree home in!

Many thanks to Medequip, our amazing local sponsor

Forest for Cornwall : Growing Together

12/02/2026

🌿 People have been curious how the sand dune is looking at Constantine Bay this year as we haven't done a Christmas Tree event this month.

🌱 Here's a picture taken this week that shows a few tips of the Christmas trees just about still showing, but how amazing the marram grass is doing that we transplanted there once the dune had built back up!

📅 We'll be hosting more Marram Grass transplanting events over the next couple of months if you want to help out. Watch out for our Events...

Cornwall National Landscape

11/02/2026

📣Do you live in or near Newquay?🌊

🌳Come and join Forest for Cornwall on Wednesday 18th February (10am - 5pm) for the BIG NEWQUAY TREE PLANT!🌳

It'll be a fun day of planting orchards and native trees to create Trenance Community Woodland. We’re transforming a half hectare green space into a nature-friendly park and we'd love your support!

Come for an hour or stay longer, everyone is welcome to drop in anytime during the day! You can plant your own tree and enjoy seeing it grow to benefit the next generation.

By planting 500 trees including an orchard there will be huge benefits for local wildlife and biodiversity, an increase in tree canopy cover and a beautiful space for everyone in Newquay to enjoy.

For more details and to book a place follow this link:

🔗 bignewquaytreeplant.eventbrite.co.uk

or scan the QR code in the photos to link to the Eventbrite page.

Booking is not a requirement but it will help the team to have a better idea of how many people are coming and ensure that we have enough equipment for everyone.
Please note children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

We'll also be involving local schools, and working with the Friends of Trenance as well as Newquay Town Council, Newquay in Bloom and Newquay BID.