SUGi
UK

Cornwall, UK

Falmouth Primary Forest

Restoring endangered temperate rainforests

School
Community
Habitat

Falmouth Primary Forest will provide an outdoor classroom for the children of Falmouth Primary Academy, a small school in the heart of a Cornish town, as a living legacy for Queen Elizabeth. Funded by the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative, the project will create a critical pocket of temperate rainforest, a now fragmented and rare ecosystem that once predominated along the west coast of the UK. It thrived thanks to the Gulf Stream, which provides mild, damp conditions that are ideal for rainforest biodiversity to flourish.

Falmouth Primary Forest will forge a connection between hundreds of school children and nature, supporting their wellbeing along with that of the planet.

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The area of the future SUGi pocket forest
The site of Falmouth Primary Forest in Cornwall, UK

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Why Falmouth Primary Forest?

Once abundant, there are only 1% of the temperate rainforests ecosystems left due to generations of deforestation and felling. These rainforests are now classified as one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world.

Together with the creation of other pockets of temperate forest in schools across Cornwall, not only will this project provide a much needed boost to the ecosystem’s survival but it will also show school communities across the region how rainforest biodiversity can thrive on their doorstep. The children will have hands-on experience during the planting and the forest itself will become a living resource that grows up alongside the children.

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