CUMBRIA Wildlife Trust picked up a Green Hero Award for its work to restore Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve.
The charity was honoured in the ‘Combating Climate Change’ category at a ceremony celebrating green companies in the North West.
Finally restored to full health this year, Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve and Meathop Moss Nature Reserve are two wildlife havens that have been in steady decline for the last 300 years, drying out and releasing their stored carbon into the atmosphere.
MORE TOP STORIES: By purchasing and favourably managing Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve and Meathop Moss Nature Reserve, Cumbria Wildlife Trust is enabling the active sequestration of carbon dioxide to continue, calculated to be around 103 tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum.
Charlotte Rowley of Cumbria Wildlife Trust said: “We were excited to be shorted listed as a finalist in two categories and really pleased that we won the Combating Climate Change Award.
“It has taken an awful lot of hard work to get Foulshaw Moss and Meathop Moss functioning as peat bogs again and we finally finished the restoration this year. To get this award is the icing on the cake.”
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