Biodiversity is essential because a healthy and diverse ecosystem underpins all life on Earth. This is important in itself but human life also depends upon a thriving living world.

Encouraging biodiversity is a stated policy of the Burgh and Tuttington Parish Council. For further details please follow this link.

Residents can encourage biodiversity in their own gardens or as part of a project with others. Tuttington churchyard is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust where there are unusual plants as well as some very old ant hills.

We can all help biodiversity in our gardens. Even in small gardens planting a variety of flowering plants, even in containers, will encourage more insects. Residents in rural parishes such as ours often have larger gardens with space they can set aside to support biodiversity. You can follow the ‘No Mow May’ initiative and leave a portion of your lawn uncut for a month (or more) in spring and early summer. There is a vast amount of advice available on the internet to encourage garden biodiversity.

Some residents have expressed an interest in encouraging biodiversity in part of Tuttington Village Green. Residents might wish to form a group to promote village biodiversity. If you have a particular project in mind and would like to discuss it with the Parish Council who coordinate the management of Tuttington Village Green, please get in touch with the Parish Council Village Green Rep.