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Crease Kemyel Crease with its outstanding beauty is a really special place for us. Situated on the south coast of Penwith, high above the waves and the spray, it is like a lookout on the top of a ship's mast. Your eyes can wander over the Channel, stop at playing dolphins, sitting cormorants and diving gannets, and then finally arrive at Lizard Point. Sometimes you think you can hear the sounds of all the hundreds of fishing boats and ships which have sunk here during the long centuries of Cornish seafaring history. |
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trees and shrubs - an interesting habitat and hideaway for many birds, particularly
migrating species - dominate the reserve. The South West Coast Path crosses the
reserve so that walkers have the opportunity to "dive" into the "green tunnels"
of Kemyel Crease. Kemyel Crease is not only one of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust's oldest reserves: it is like our own "living room". Every year when we come back to Cornwall - which feels like our second home - we immediately go to Mousehole to walk the coast path to Lamorna Cove. When we reach the green sign |
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Kemyel Crease Nature Reserve, we feel we are coming home. In 1998 when
we married, we asked our friends and relatives to make a donation to the Habitat
Appeal and these gifts are now in use for work on the reserve. That's why there's
a close link between our love for each other and the love we feel for Cornwall
and this special place. Sitting on the bank at Kemyel Crease with a cup of tea, looking down to the sea and hearing the birds singing, is like "breathing" Cornwall. Heike Neunaber and Rüdiger Wohlers |
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| In the latest issue of our junior magazine Pawprint we are asking the children to think about how we can make room for wildlife in our daily lives. To be surrounded by wilderness at all times is impossible, given that we want or need so many other things which take up wildlife's space. At the other extreme, we can't expect species to survive if they are confined to isolated nature reserves and "wildlife corners". We need connections between these sites if nature is to function properly. | Hedgerows, road
verges and wild field margins are good connecting features. Gardens, school grounds,
churchyards, parks, playing fields and even the land around offices, shops and
factories can contribute to filling in the large gaps between wildlife sites if
compromises can be made with nature. What can you do to make room for wildlife
in the places where you live, work and play? Mark Nicholson |
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Robert Regan (aged 13, not 11 - sorry), whose garden design was featured in the last Wild Cornwall, presents his full plans in the current Pawprint. Please call for details. | ||