Environmental Projects Planned to Celebrate the Queens Diamond Jubilee
The United Kingdom is celebrating in 2012, the Olympic Games in London and that Queen Elizabeth the Second has reigned for 60 years. Many celebratory events in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. However, after the parties are over and the bunting comes down, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, as the Golden Jubilee, will leave a lasting environmental legacy for future generations in three major environmental projects in the United Kingdom.
The United Kingdom is a green and pleasant land, but it lost much of its ancient forests and now has the fewest native trees of any country in Europe.The Woodlands Trustaims to plant six million trees all over the United Kingdom. This huge project includes the flagship Diamond Jubilee wood and 60 diamond woods of at least 60 acres each.
Leicestershire will be the home to 460 acres of public woods. This area will be the Diamond Jubilee Wood. Volunteers will plant a wood, containing 300,000 trees in the heart of the National forest to join existing forested areas together making the forest the largest continuous public forest. This large forest, under the National Trust’s care will provide not only a wildlife habitat but also relaxation and green spaces for the people for generations to come.
The trust is also raising money to send free saplings to 5,000 community groups and schools so that they can plant trees in their own communities. Individuals may buy trees from the Woodland Trust Site to plant in their own gardens, knowing that not only are they helping to reach the target of 6,000,000 trees but also that the money raised from trees sold to individuals will pay for the free tree sapling packs for communities and schools. Those wishing to buy a sapling from the Woodland Trust might care to buy limited edition Royal Oak saplings grown from acorns gathered from the Royal estates, all over the United Kingdom for a very special and fitting souvenir of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, which will live long after the parties are a faint memory.
In keeping with the idea of a lasting legacy from the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the charity, Fields in Trust launched a scheme to protect 2012 outdoor recreation spaces forever. The Queen Elizabeth the Second fields will be various public spaces, including sports pitches, woodlands, children’s play areas, gardens, bicycle trails, parks, and more in perpetuity. Fields in Trust hopes that local authorities will nominate a vast array of outdoor spaces, under this scheme. Community residents will vote for spaces nominated by their local authorities. The scheme ensures that public outdoor recreation areas will provide relaxation, outdoor spaces, exercise, and sport, ensuring space for healthy activity, fostering social cohesion and improving the environment for future generations by protecting 2012 outdoor spaces from development, effectively holding them for their communities forever.
Another environmental project is the Jubilee Greenway Walk, a 60 kilometre (37 mile) long walking and cycling route, linking many Olympic venues, London Parks, attractions, and sights. The Jubilee Greenwaywill provide a pleasant and safe place to walk, or cycle, in the busy capital and a way to see London Life, in a way that is impossible by looking through a car window.
These are the official National environmental projects celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. However, there are many other local environmental projects to celebrate, pay tribute to, and remember the occasion for years to come, for example, inNantwich,Cheshire college students planted 5,000 bluebell bulbs along the Crewe to Nantwich Greenway, the local Rotary club, a charitable fund raising organization, supplied the bulbs. These rare woodland wild flowers will bloom for the Jubilee. This is merely one of the local environmental projects in communities all over the United Kingdom.
Queen Elizabeth in celebrating her Diamond Jubilee joins Queen Victoria the only other British monarch ever to reign more than sixty years. Parties and tributes are a way to celebrate the present, but environmental projects leave a legacy for everyone now and for the future. Woods, recreation spaces and the Jubilee Greenway provide the people with exercise, fun, enjoyment, and pleasure now and in the future and smaller projects, such as the Rotary club and students’ bluebells, not only provide local colour but they protect the British environment.
All the environmental projects for the Queen’s Jubilee, whether large or small, preserve and protect the British environment for future generations and provide a very fitting tribute to Queen Elizabeth, a countrywoman to her very core.
