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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Lizard peninsula recovery project aims to save ‘microhabitats’

A person in an orange helmet and hi-vis vest stands holding climbing ropes on a cliff, with hottentot fig on one side and sea the below behind
Hottentot fig being cleared from cliffs at the Lizard. Photograph: Seth jackson/National Trust Images

The landscape at the most southerly tip of mainland Britain is expansive and grand: rolling heath and grasslands, spectacular cliffs, crashing waves.

But a recovery project funded by Natural England is focusing on unique and vital “microhabitats” found in sometimes overlooked spots on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall.

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