{"id":314149,"date":"2025-08-03T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314149\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:17:11","slug":"birmingham-becomes-uks-first-nature-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314149\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham becomes UK’s first Nature City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birmingham has been named the UK’s first official Nature City\u00a0in recognition of its efforts to improve access to green spaces and reconnect communities with the natural environment.<\/p>\n

The accolade, awarded by a partnership including Natural England, the National Trust and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, celebrates the city’s commitment to boosting biodiversity and tackling health and climate inequalities through nature.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole were also collectively designated as the country’s first official Nature Towns under the same scheme.<\/p>\n

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\nBlack Redstart<\/a>\u00a0is a rare breeding bird found in the Birmingham area\u00a0(Neil Turney).<\/p>\n

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Green cities<\/p>\n

The Nature Towns and Cities programme aims to help some 100 locations across the UK become greener, healthier places to live and work. Birmingham’s recognition follows a \u00a39-million National Lottery Heritage Fund grant to restore the historic Victorian glasshouses at the city’s Botanical Gardens.<\/p>\n

Birmingham City Council’s 25-year City of Nature plan<\/a> sets out a long-term vision to embed nature into the cityscape.<\/p>\n

Councillor Majid Mahmood said the council is “leading the way” in urban nature recovery, adding: “We work with groups like Birmingham Tree People<\/a> to plant trees in inner-city areas, and with local partners to create pocket parks that boost wellbeing, biodiversity and community pride.”<\/p>\n

No fewer than 40 other UK towns and cities have also received funding to improve access to nature, including nearly \u00a31 million each for Coventry and Walsall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham has been named the UK’s first official Nature City\u00a0in recognition of its efforts to improve access to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-314149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114964086319376604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}