HMP North Sea Camp in Lincolnshire on the edge of “The Wash” is a nationally important SSSI and Ramsar site. Recognised for it’s wading bird populations such as Redshank and Stint it is just one of over 60 sites associated with rural wildlife.
A wealth of wildlife lives and thrives around individual prison establishments, from city centre prisons like HMP Wormwood Scrubs and HMP Holloway to very rural settings like HMP Dartmoor within a National Park. And from one of the largest clear-water ponds, SSSI Brasside Ponds at HMP Frankland in County Durham, to a county significant Alder nettle wet woodland at HMP Wymott and a nationally important arboretum at HMP Leyhill. The prison estate covers a dynamic and diverse set of habitats and species. Similarly, many of its urban prisons in towns and city centres show just as much diversity in their wildlife including bats, birds, and small mammals.
HMP Holloway and to the left HMP Shrewsbury are just two of over 50 prisons in England and Wales that can be associated with urban wildlife. Although they don’t have the large woodlands of HMYOI Prescoed in Wales or the large SSSI lake of HMP Hewell Grange, they may demonstrate a valuable resource in protecting species such as Bats and invertebrates.
HMP Hewell Grange in Worcestershire nestling in the famous “Repton” Victorian landscape and to the left HMYOI Prescoed in Wales with its expansive woodlands, Tir Gofal dairy farm and newt ponds are just a selection of sites that represent the larger more diverse rural wildlife of the prison estate. These nationally important sites are managed in close partnership with our
Central Partnership, protecting both UK BAP species and habitats.
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