This area is one of Cornwall’s most important havens for wildlife, and while County Wildlife Sites are not legally protected, they are recognised as being of special significance for biodiversity.

National Landscapes are designated on account of their “outstanding natural beauty”. This includes a combination of factors such as landscape quality, scenic quality, relative wildness, relative tranquillity, natural heritage features and cultural heritage.

This is an area with incredibly rich marine habitats that support a wealth of marine wildlife, many of the species that live there have been important to people for food for thousands of years but the habitats themselves that these commercial species rely on are only recently becoming better understood and appreciated!

Pendower is a unique habitat on the south Cornwall coast, a rare small sand-dune system, Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), and part of Cornwall National Landscape.

The landscape around the Pink Hotel and up the Melinsey valley is a rich habitat for many small mammals, plants, trees, birds, reptiles and invertebrates. Some of these are rare, endangered or Biodiversity Action Plan species.

More details coming soon.  To follow this fascinating geological trail, click here for a printable version.

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Pendower Dunes is one of the sites included in the Making Space for Sand project (MS4S). The aim of Making Space for Sand is about helping to build resilience to the impacts associated with climate change, rising seas, coastal flooding and erosion.

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