‘We plant belonging’: how nature charities and asylum seekers work together in UK countryside

Asylum seekers help to clear invasive Himalyan balsam in Tŷ Mawr country park, north Wales. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Shielding his eyes from the blinding midday sun, Abdullah, a Sudanese asylum seeker, gazes out at the expanse of green in Tŷ Mawr country park in north Wales.

“This place is so beautiful,” he says. “It feels a very long way from the Home Office.”