Torbay's Buzzing!
Torbay’s Buzzing! Project created over 8 hectares of habitat for pollinators, helping to re-connected the local community with the wildlife on their doorstep. Mown grass areas were transformed into new wildflower-rich grasslands and existing grasslands enhanced with more flowers, alongside the creation of seven ‘Pollinator Cafes’ in popular public areas and planting blossom-rich trees for bees.
Quick Facts:
- Name of Project: Torbay’s Buzzing!
- Duration of Project: 2016 – 2017
- Location of Project: Torbay
- Species benefiting from Project: Pollinators
- Project funded by: National Lottery Heritage Fund
- Project Partner: Torbay Council
- Habitat created/enhanced through project: Over 8ha
Working together with Torbay Council and local communities, Torbay’s Buzzing! supported declining populations of bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects to recover by filling parks and public open space with wildflowers.
Areas of mown grass were transformed from green deserts into havens for wildlife and people. In total, over 8 hectares, the equivalent of 8 football pitches, were be enhanced across sites in Torbay, Paignton and Brixham.
Torbay’s Buzzing! gave tired flowerbeds a makeover – adding nectar and pollen-rich flowers to create “Pollinator Cafes”, and planting blossom-rich trees for bees.
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