A National Highways-funded green initiative to protect and enhance biodiversity alongside the A30 in Cornwall has just completed.

As part of its Designated Funding programme, National Highways has provided Cornwall Wildlife Trust with £1.02-million to restore and recreate 15.5 hectares of woodland, orchard, grassland and heathland around Ladock to Gwills and Benhaven to Lambourne Mill, north of Truro.

As part of the environmental initiative, a total of 15,000 trees have been planted within the mid-Cornwall landscape, including species such as scots pine, oak, lime, chestnut, sycamore and blackthorn near Idless Woods in the upper Truro catchment.