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Our work

Teesdale Special Flora Research and Conservation Trust was founded by botanist Dr Margaret Bradshaw in 2017, to protect the rare arctic-alpine plants of Upper Teesdale, many of which have survived here since the last Ice Age.

 

Our aims are to research and monitor these plants, find practical ways to help them recover, and raise awareness of why they matter. We cannot do this alone, so we work with botanists, volunteers, schools, artists, landowners and conservation organisations on a range of past and present projects, each helping to secure the future of Teesdale’s special flora.

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Explore our past and present projects below to see what we’ve achieved and where we’re heading next.

M Rogers

A 2022–23 project to survey Teesdale's rare arctic-alpine flora, trial recovery actions and bring local people, schools and artists into the story of these globally significant plants. Funded by the Green Recovery Challenge Fund.

Plants on the edge

MEB demonstrating Teesdale Flora to volunteers on WBF2 photo by Laura Gravestock_edited.jp

A volunteer group founded by Dr Margaret Bradshaw in 2002 to survey and monitor Upper Teesdale’s rare plants, and to engage local people with the flora, through weekly summer field-work sessions and indoor botanical training. 

Upper Teesdale Botany Group

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Since 2017 the trust has worked with professional botanists to produce baseline distribution mapping of the Teesdale Special Flora assemblage. 

Mapping the distribution of Teesdale Special Flora

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