Thanks
to you
Trust Chairman Howard Curnow on duty at the Royal Cornwall Show. (Sally and Lorna's Octopus's Garden, inside the tent, was magnificent but we haven't yet received a photo that does it justice.) Photo: Alison Vaughan
A message from America
Hopefully many of you managed to see us at the Royal Cornwall Show this year, despite its different timing. Our thanks go to Lorna Crewes, of Bosilliac Nurseries, and to Sally Pyner for overcoming the difficulties of producing a wildlife garden in September that was originally planted to be ready for June! The bubble fountain provided by Carnon Downs Garden Centre drew much interest. We also had more memberships of the Trust taken out during the show than ever before. Thanks go to all of the volunteers, without whom the event could not have taken place.
Alison Vaughan
Plea for slides
Our education and publicity section has had a slide library for some time now, which has proved to be a very useful resource and which is available to Trust speakers and other organisations. We are hoping to be able to expand it and are currently running a campaign asking for people to donate slides. We are particularly interested in receiving images of Cornwall's natural history and wild places.
If you have anything you are willing to donate, please send it to me and include the following details for each slide where possible: photographer's name; date taken; location; description (including scientific name if relevant); contact details.
All slides donated must be copyright free as they are sometimes used for publicity purposes as well as for our educational talks and publications.
Jayne Herbert
On 13th September I visited the Scillies to attend the launch of the new Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust, the 47th in Britain. Principal guests, Bill Oddie and our national Director General, Simon Lyster, performed their tasks to a large, appreciative audience.
The responsibilities of the new Trust are awesome: the Scillies have 906 scheduled monuments and archaeological sites; they
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly together cover 1,350 square miles. This Great Smoky Mountain National Park covers 830 square miles. Now that's protection! No wonder the monarchs choose this route from Canada to Mexico.
Howard Curnow
Trust Chairnan