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@EdenProject
Eden Project
2 years
After over 20 years, our nutmeg tree has produced fruit 😲🌳 They are now ripe, as you can see from the vivid red covering that forms a lattice around the nutmeg seed. The seed is used to make nutmeg and the lattice to make mace.
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NEWS: Eden Project Morecambe has been awarded a £50m investment by the Gov’s Levelling Up Fund. Thank you to the #Morecambe community and our partners for their unwavering support and contribution: @LancasterCC , @LancashireCC , Lancashire Enterprise Partnership & @LancasterUni
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We’ve partnered with @PlayStationUK to light our Biomes like Aloy’s Shieldwing in the new game #HorizonForbiddenWest . Thanks to this partnership, our National Wildflower Centre will create 12 acres of wildflower habitat in Morecambe, Lancashire.
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This is the first image of how Eden Project Dundee might look. We've just signed a memorandum with the owners of the preferred site, @nationalgriduk and @SGNgas , to explore the practicalities of converting the former Dundee Gasworks.
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1 year
This evening, we joined landmarks nationwide to ‘Light up the Nation’ as part of the BBC’s Coronation Concert. Did you miss it? Here's a taster of our spectacular drone show by @Skymagicdrones @edencommunities #LightUpTheNation #CoronationConcert
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@EdenProject
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3 years
We are delighted to have reached the point of having planning permission unanimously approved for Eden Project North, bringing the project one step closer to reality 🙌 #EdenProjectNorth is shovel-ready and work now continues to secure investment.
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@EdenProject
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6 years
Happy 70th birthday NHS! Our Biomes have gone blue tonight in support #NHS70 #LightUpBlue
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@EdenProject
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4 years
We’re working with @DundeeCouncil and @dundeeuni to explore the feasibility of an ‘Eden Project Scotland’ in Dundee. it's part of our portfolio of regenerative international projects with an overarching theme of humanity’s connection to the natural world.
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📢 We’re submitting a planning application for Eden Project Dundee this autumn 🎉 Aiming to transform the city’s former gasworks into a beacon for regeneration and green tourism 💚🌎 @DundeeCouncil @dundeeuni
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Eden Project Dundee has been granted planning permission! 🎉 #EdenProjectDundee
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2022, our celebrations - 3 👷 Received planning permission for Eden Project North in Morecambe – reimagining the seaside resort, exploring innovative ways of engaging with the natural world #EdenProjectNorth
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Excited to reveal plans for Eden Project North, coming to Morecambe, Lancashire – in partnership with @lancslep @LancasterUni @LancashireCC @lancastercc . Designed by @GrimshawArch , the pavilions in this reimagined seaside resort for the 21st century are inspired by mussels.
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5 years
Celebrating at the @Camfed garden after winning gold at #RHSChelsea today! We’re proud to have supplied the plants for this garden 😁
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2 years
It’s hard to believe that this is what our site used to look like! We bought an exhausted, steep-sided clay pit 60 metres deep, with no soil, 15 metres below the water table, and essentially gave it life 🌱🌴🍄🌺🌻 #EdenProject
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@EdenProject
Eden Project
3 years
We’re proud to reach our 20th birthday today! We'll look forward to what the next 20 years will hold and to demonstrating that the future remains ours to make. 🎂💚🌍
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Eden Project
5 years
After a ten-year campaign, we're proud to announce that we've secured funding of £16.8 million to drill the first well for our pioneering geothermal heat and power project.
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1 year
Happy 22nd birthday to us 🎈 RT if you remember when we were first built 👷
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We can’t wait for Sunday’s special episode @BBC_ARoadshow filmed here at Eden 🌿 RT if you’d like to see some Cornish treasures 💎 #AntiquesRoadshow
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We were delighted to host the Queen Consort alongside Fiona Bruce and the @BBC_ARoadshow team 📺 Tune in tonight at 8pm #AntiquesRoadshow
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Eden Project
6 years
We’ve just welcomed three ancient olive trees into our Med Biome, giving them a new home after they were removed to make way for younger trees in Spain and Portugal. The giant evergreens are estimated to be up to 1,500 years old!
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@EdenProject
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6 years
Like if you've ever visited our Biomes!
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2 years
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall @ClarenceHouse visited @BBC_ARoadshow at the Eden Project today. Her Royal Highness has been Patron of our biggest community project @edencommunities The Big Lunch over the last decade so it was wonderful to welcome her back to Cornwall 🌼💚
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We’re excited to host a major G7 event and to welcome some very special guests to Eden. We’ll work hard to ensure there’s a positive legacy, not only for Cornwall but for a sustainable and thriving planet. The future remains ours to make.
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6 years
Thousands of people turned out to beaches today as part of Danny Boyle’s Armistice commission #PagesoftheSea . Eden, with support from Heligan, led the events at Porthmeor Beach in St Ives, East Looe Beach, Perranporth Beach and Saunton Sands in Devon. @1418NOW
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7 years
Huge congratulations to our co-founder Tim Smit on his Lifetime Achievement Award at tonight’s #WMNBusinessAwards , for making “a considerable, profitable and lasting contribution”.
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Delighted to host the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge @KensingtonRoyal at Eden Project today.
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"The regeneration of an old gasworks into a stunning garden of Eden is visionary...It really will be a fantastic attraction for the city and Scotland as a whole." – First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on the plans for Eden Project Dundee
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4 years
We've submitted a business case for £70m of UK Government funding to help make Eden Project North in Morecambe a reality. The report presents the development as a key driver of the UK’s post-Covid green recovery.
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Celebrations ⁦ @Camfed ⁩ garden #RHSChelsea as the African Garden wins a gold medal. The garden will be coming to Eden after the show.
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6 years
Our titan arum opened last night -come and see this rare beauty at Eden today! It only blooms for about 48 hours, it has the largest flowering structure in the world, it’s an endangered species and it stinks of rotting flesh!
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@EdenProject
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4 years
We're excited to announce that we've received £1.2m from the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) to fund the development work needed to prepare a planning application for Eden Project North in Morecambe.
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6 years
Pasty for lunch anyone? #pastychamps
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It’s feeding time at the zoo! The roul-rouls are keeping well, and we think chicks are on the way… 🐤 They’re being looked after by the small team of horticulturists carrying out essential plant care. #Easter #EdenProject #Cornwall #Rainforest
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2 years
Take a disused china clay pit and create life in it. We understood the assignment 🌱
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6 years
Would you like to live in this house? #pastychamps
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7 years
Following UFO sightings across Cornwall this week, we’ve just seen this flying over our Biomes! #ufocornwall
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5 years
We planted this olive tree, along with two other enormous specimens, in our Biome last month. They were removed to make way for younger trees in Spain and Portugal and are thought to be up to 1,500 years old!
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7 years
Our Biomes will be lit in rainbow colours for our Proud Eden LGBTQ event today. Talks, shows, music & more 2.30-10pm
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@EdenProject
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2 years
Our nutmeg tree has produced fruit for what could be the first time ever in the UK! 🌳 The trees produce spices mace and nutmeg, and are difficult to grow without the right conditions, so it’s a momentous occasion for us and our Horticulture Team 👏 #Nutmeg
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RT if you'd like to visit the Eden Project to learn about the importance of plants 🌱🧐
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A landmark moment for renewable energy took place at Eden today! 🔥🪨👉🌱 Geothermal energy will be supplying heat to our Biomes and our new nursery, Growing Point.
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@EdenProject
Eden Project
3 years
Please note that the Eden Project will be closed to all visitors from 6pm on Sunday 14 November until 10am on Monday 22 November, for an all-staff wellbeing week.
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5 years
A great media buzz at the ⁦ @Camfed ⁩ garden as BBC's ⁦ @nickbailey365 ⁩ chats to Clarah Zinyama of CAMFED from Zimbabwe and designer Jilayne Rickards at the gold medal-winning African Garden #RHSChelsea #SeeGrowth . Look out for BBC 2 coverage on Weds eve
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1 year
What’s so special about #seagrass ? Narrated by @MontyHalls & @Imogennapper , this animation dives into the importance of seagrass meadows and their impact. See the full-length animation:  @EULIFERemedies @NaturalEngland @together_nature #SeagrassMatters
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Eden Project
2 years
Like if you woke up to winter wonderland scenes today too ❄️⛄
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@EdenProject
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3 years
Today at the COP26 global summit we announced plans to open our first South American site in Colombia’s Meta region. We'll work alongside the Colombian Ministry of the Environment and the Humboldt Institute to establish how an Eden Project in Colombia might look. 🇨🇴🌎
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@EdenProject
Eden Project
7 years
Look - our titan arum opened last night! Come and see this giant, stinking corpse flower today or tomorrow. #timelapse
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6 years
What a difference a few days make…last week we were covered in snow, today we've had beautiful sunshine and blue skies!
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5 years
#HappyStPatricksDay ! It's also our 18th birthday today! Eden is one of a number of famous landmarks turned green by @TourismIreland to mark #StPatricksDay .
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6 years
Join us from midday today as we create huge sand portraits of fallen soldiers from the First World War on Perranporth, Porthmeor, East Looe, Porthcurno and Saunton Sands beaches for @1418NOW #PagesOfTheSea
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5 years
We've been hard at work installing the @Camfed garden for next week's Chelsea Flower Show.
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4 years
Like if you love bees! ❤️🐝
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3 years
Our horticulturalist Mark found this little gecko clinging to a tree which was being moved to a new location inside the Rainforest 🦎 He’s now safely enjoying life on another trunk! What shall we name him? #Gecko
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6 years
Lots of warm autumnal colours on show early this morning 🍂🍁
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He rocks out at Eden, all day long... #rockinrobin
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11 years
RT @TheEdenSessions : First 2014 announcement! @elliegoulding will play Eden on 8 July. Tickets now on sale to Inside Trackers
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📢 We're due to activate the Eden Project Morecambe site at the end of 2024, with construction to follow and a goal of opening in 2027. #WatchThisSpace
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7 years
Great shot of a clear night over the Biomes, by Eden Team member Arran Walton.
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7 years
So pleased to feature as one of the landmark buildings in @RoyalMail 's special issue stamps.
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5 years
Celebrate #nationalmeadowsday today by getting out in the sunshine and finding some wildflowers! We're proud to be home of the National Wildflower Centre. 🌼
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7 years
Have you walked across our Cloud Bridge?
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6 years
People often think that sunflowers are named because they look like the sun. When really, it's because their heads turn to follow the sun throughout the day, soaking up the golden rays 🌞 They always have a way of bringing instant cheer to a garden 🌻🌻🌻
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Double rainbow 🌈🌈!
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3 years
Oi, Earthling! Act Now! As nearly 300 drones fly above the Eden Project, we urge all Earthlings to come together and create a better future for our planet 🌎 ACT NOW 👉 #COP26 #IAmAnEarthling
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We're very excited to unveil the vision for Eden Project Foyle, a proposed new cultural tourist attraction in Derry~Londonderry @River_Foyle #EdenProjectFoyle #Derry Find out more at
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6 years
Did you know, we're now home to the National Wildflower Centre? We’ve sown swathes of beautiful, native wildflower species all over Eden, to help bring biodiversity, delight and colour back into the UK's natural landscape 🌼🌸🌷
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@EdenProject
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3 years
It’s official – we’ve submitted a planning application for Eden Project North in Morecambe. Due to open in 2024, this £125m project will re-imagine the British seaside resort & inspire wonder & a connection with the natural world.
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Part of the Eden Project, the National Wildflower Centre works hard to boost biodiversity across the UK by creating spaces where pollinators can thrive 🌸🌼🐝🦋
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The mesmerising #AuroraBorealis over the Biomes on Friday. 📸: Thank you to our security staff member Jamie Roberts for capturing this incredible #NorthernLights moment.
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We’re thrilled to hear we’ve received funding thanks to the government’s #CultureRecoveryFund so that we can continue to be here for you and #HereForCulture . Thank you to @DCMS and @ace_southwest 🙏
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5 years
A pleasure to have @David_Oakes (AKA Juan Borgia and #Victoria ’s Prince Ernest) here to record an interview with our Head of Interpretation for @TreesACrowdpod
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4 years
A titan arum is now blooming at Eden! Unfortunately our Rainforest Biome won’t be open to visitors until 4 July but we hope you enjoy the pictures! The bloom will only last 48 hours.
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Lovely photo of a rainbow over the Biomes, taken on Monday by visitor Ian Wilcox. 🌈
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7 years
A team of rainforest scientists camped in aerial tents called portaledges for the @bigcanopycamp at Eden last night. A snooze in the sky!
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We may not be able to #makeitblue while we’re closed, but here’s a photo from the past of our glowing blue Biomes in honour of this evening’s #nhsclap 👏 #ClapForCarers
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8 years
Properly tropical - @LawsonOfficial in our Rainforest Biome!!!
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4 years
🙋 Hands up who’s visited the Malaysian House before, hidden away inside our Rainforest Biome. Designed like an authentic south-east Asian home garden, its vegetable plot has everything from star fruit to yardlong beans to bitter gourds 🥒 🍜
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A letter signed by nearly 100 leaders, academics and educators urging the Government to provide funding for Eden Project North in its forthcoming Budget has been sent to the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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We sent pollen from our titan arum to @CUBotanicGarden to pollinate theirs– couriered on ice to arrive fresh within the 48hr blooming window
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🥇 We've won a GOLD medal at #RHSChelsea for our peatland display with @DalefootCompost , which encourages gardeners to switch to #peatfree . Thanks to @NECumbria for the ‘borrowed’ slice of bog.
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From the Forbidden West to the Eden Project – look at our iconic Biomes lit up like up Aloy's Shieldwing from the new game #HorizonForbiddenWest . Find out how this partnership with @PlayStationUK is helping to highlight the plight of wildflower habitats:
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A Christmas robin, spotted in the Mediterranean Biome. #birdsoftwitter
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This is how we looked some 20 years ago! #ThrowbackThursday #TBT
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Space is as close as Exeter! If this has piqued your interest, be sure to explore our Expedition Space extravaganza this summer:
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Kicking off night two of @MCROfficial with the incredible @LostAlone 🤘🏼 #EdenSessions #LostAlone
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We’ve got the largest indoor rainforest in the world!
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Himalayan blue poppy in our Outdoor Gardens
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We found all of these leaves at Eden today!
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The enormous lilypads of the Santa Cruz water lily
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Apologies for any delays on our Land Train, a blackbird has nested in the tractor wheel and its chicks are hatching!
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Today we reopen the doors to our Outdoor Gardens! Here’s a flavour of what you can expect when you visit, plus a sneak preview of how we’ve grown since you last saw us. Don’t forget, all visits must be booked in advance in timed slots online:
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It took @ESA astronaut @astro_duque just 8.5 min to get to space! Hear about his life on the ISS at 3.15 today.
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We’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas for the forthcoming Eden Project North in Morecambe. Feedback welcome from everyone, wherever you live. Take part in our Community Engagement Survey at
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Look at this deer darting through our Outdoor Gardens today! 🦌👀
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Lovely to see our roul-rouls helping each other out during lockdown 😊
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Since 2018, our National Wildflower Centre has created 100+ hectares of #wildflower meadows across the UK 🌼💚
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This orangutan made of scrap metal is the latest addition to our Rainforest Biome. It's the work of James Wild and has been made to raise awareness of the threat that these iconic apes face from habitat loss.
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