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Shrinking the Footprint

How wild is your churchyard?

Manage, don’t mow your churchyard and give space to endangered plant species. That is the message from the CofE’s national environmental campaign Shrinking the Footprint which has signed up to the United Nations’ International Year of Biodiversity (IYB). An estimated two thirds of the CofE’s 16,000 churches (around 10,000) have churchyards and around 6,000 of these are already contributing to the biodiversity of the country – both in rural and urban areas –while remaining respectful to its users particularly family and friends of those buried there.

Pic courtesy of Norfolk Wildlife Trust