Challenging the Lottery to cough up for our Arboricultural Heritage!

The Plan
- Build a brand new, visitor complex by March 2011 (with a tree-top viewing platform!)
- Create over 150 miles of new walking, cycling and horse riding paths
- Transform 300 hectares of farmland (over 400 football pitches!) into a beautiful mosaic of habitats

Why
- Sherwood Forest contains the oldest collection of ancient oak trees in Europe
- Parts of the Forest habitat are rarer than the tropical rainforst
- Thousands of people across the region will have the chance to take part in transforming existing agricultural land into new woodland and heathland
- It's home to a vast array of wildlife from spiders and badgers, to deer and nightjars
- We need to protect Sherwood Forest for future generations

Sherwood Forest is no longer the majestic expanse of woods and heatland that it once was. Industrialisation and the march of time have taken their toll on the ancient greenwood that Robin Hood called home. But that is set to change ...

Sherwood: the Living Legend will more than double the core size of the ancient oak forest; provide environmentally friendly visitor facilities; create one fo the biggest walking, cycling and horse riding networks in Europe and help local communities celebrate and share their connections to Sherwood's nature, history and lengends.

Most importantly, our project will protect the fragile ecology of one of the world's most famous forests and its ancient oak trees, so it can be enjoyed by future generations....

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