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Welcome
to this privately run site, which is something of a personal
notebook built up over many years, on the fabulous wildlife
that can be seen within the county of Cumbria. I also raise
money by selling art for conservation. ABOUT
CUMBRIA FOR
DISTRIBUTION MAPS FOR CUMBRIAN SPECIES VISIT: FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION ON CUMBRIAN WILDLIFE BIODIVERSITY AND HABITATS
VISIT:
It is made available online in the hope that others can share
in my enjoyment and voyage of discovery.
Please use the menu links above to visit the main pages, where
you will find further supplementary pages.
Comments, corrections and additions are welcomed; please
email using the link above.
Cumbria is enormously rich in wildlife and has a tremendous
variety of habitats and a huge variation in climate. It has
more SSSI's (about 227) than any other English county and the
greatest area of land (about 140 ha) under SSI notification.
The igneous rocks of the central Lakes are surrounded by bands
of slate, limestone and sandstone. These create soil and vegetation
types of great variety, at heights ranging from over 1000 metres
down to sea level. Although noted for its mountains, lakes,
and valleys, Cumbra also has a long coastline that affords excellent
dune systems, sandstone cliffs, coastal lowland with internationally
rare raised bogs and estuaries of international importance.
No other county has such a diversity of bird habitat for example.
25
National Nature Reserves
37 Wildlife Trust Reserves
5 Local Nature Reserves
5 RSPB Reserves
34 Woodland Trust Reserves
over 275 SSI's
Over 70 Geological SSSI's.
