Beauty and variety

Britain enjoys a tremendously wide range of landscapes for a small island only 600 miles long and 300 miles wide. Its diverse and fascinating landscapes, from bleak mountain ranges to dense woodlands, from lush valleys to sparse moorlands, were formed over millions of years and reflect not just the geology of the country but its climate, its soils, its history and above all the influence of its human population.

Much of what we see as Britain’s natural environment is in fact to a high degree man-made. Patterns of human activity and settlement have often shaped the underlying habitat, to the extent that counties and districts just a few miles from one another can have a wholly distinctive landscape. But many of these unique local landscapes are under threat from urban development and climate change.

 

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