Out & About Autumn 2021

Out & About leisure

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The Eden Project, Bodelva, Cornwall PL24 2SG www.edenproject.com

working on and developing projects locally, nationally and internationally. Our work is underpinned by the understanding that we need to live with the grain of nature and that everything is interconnected. What we do to the Earth we do to ourselves. Eden is a feast for the senses that can be experienced in so many different ways – whether you’re looking for a calming immersion in nature or a fun-packed day of excitement. In the Rainforest Biome, explore the largest rainforest in captivity. Trek through the humid tropics from tropical islands to SE Asia, and West Africa to tropical South America. Visit the accessible canopy walkway for stunning views over the Biome. Experience sights, scents and stories from the Mediterranean, California, South Africa and Western Australia in

the Mediterranean Biome. With the sweet aromas of herbs in the air, you’ll take an unforgettable journey through a paradise of brightly coloured flowers, gnarled olive trunks and bountiful vines. The Outdoor Gardens are home to over 20 plant-based exhibits, colourful seasonal borders, art installations and play areas. The Wild Edge area displays the world’s temperate lands while the Crops area introduces plants for food, fuels, medicines and materials. There are gardens for play, creativity, fruit, veg, flowers, health and wellbeing. Our growing Climate Garden takes you through 400 million years and explores possible positive futures. In the Core Building, Invisible Worlds reveals the world beyond our senses: too big, too small, too fast, too slow, too far away in space and time. The exhibition explores how life is shaped by, and shapes, invisible systems. water vole, using wild horses to help restore Kent’s most precious nature reserves, bringing the extinct European beaver back to Britain and returning the hazel dormouse and red squirrel to areas where they have been made extinct. As well as the conservation charity, Wildwood has two much-loved wildlife parks, Wildwood Trust in Kent and Wildwood Escot in Devon, where visitors can connect and get up-close with British wildlife past, present and future including wolves, bears, red squirrels, arctic foxes, bison, wild boar, lynx, beavers, and, of course, wild cats.

An educational charity and social enterprise whose global mission is to create a movement that builds relationships between people and the natural world to demonstrate the power of working together for the benefit of all living things. Twenty years ago, a group of like- minded individuals transformed a china clay pit in Cornwall into a living theatre of plants and people. This visitor destination, cultural venue and global garden showcases man’s dependence on plants and demonstrates technological ingenuity and the regeneration of landscapes and livelihoods. It was our first ‘shop window’ for the future we want to make. Today we are a growing movement,

Wildwood Trust, Herne Common, Herne Bay, Kent, CT6 7LQ https://wildwoodtrust.org Wildwood Trust opened in 1999 as a centre of excellence for the conservation of British wildlife, and was established as a registered charity in 2002. As one of the leading British animal conservation charities in the UK, Wildwood Trust is dedicated to saving Britain’s most threatened wildlife. Wildwood Trust has taken part in many groundbreaking conservation programmes to date, which include, saving the

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