The Jupiter Urban Wildlife Centre is a demonstration site to show how urban green spaces can be created from wasteland.
The site was created on an old industrial estate in the early 90’s, too look at how green amenity areas, including gardens, can be managed to meet both human and wildlife needs. Staff at our Grangemouth site have actively supported the project since it began.
The wildlife centre consists of formal garden areas that demonstrate techniques which individuals can use in their own gardens to benefit wildlife, habitat creation areas where new wildlife habitats have been created from scratch and now abound with wildlife, and areas where nature has been allowed to develop under its own power.
The garden is supported by British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV), and has proved highly successful. The site is now home to hundreds of native trees, over 350 species of wildflower, a large and diverse population of invertebrates, and 14 varieties of butterfly. Amphibians and birds are also in abundance onsite.
Today Syngenta still supports the project financially and regularly gets involved with events. When the site was revamped in 2006 Syngenta sponsored the new information boards. The staff at our Grangemouth site also celebrated Syngenta’s 5th birthday by donating and planting a tree in the wildlife garden.