Wildlife gardens plans expansion
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Under a GBP1 million investment the new outdoor activity area, named WildRootz, will include a Canopy Walk larger than Kew Gardens’ and a play space in the woods, fields and streams at 7,000 square-metre in size.
It has been launched to help reconnect kids with nature, with owner Deb Jordan aiming to get kids out of living rooms.
“It’s been well documented how children today are inclined to stay indoors to play in the virtual world rather than putting on a pair of wellies and playing outside in the natural world. We believe children are becoming quite detached from rural Britain and instead getting hooked into technology, to the point where they don’t know what many species of bird, insect, tree or plant look like,” she explained.
“At Pensthorpe we see ourselves as custodians of the natural world and in an effort to encourage the next generation to play their part in protecting the environment for the future, we are launching WildRootz as a first step to safely reconnect children with outdoor, green spaces. This is our contribution in encouraging a new generation of Chris Packham’s or David Attenborough’s for tomorrow,” she added.