Play area aims to interest children in rare habitat

Play area aims to interest children in rare habitatImage caption, The Chalk Stream play zone has opened at Winchester Science CentreByEthan GudgeSouth of EnglandPublished14 minutes agoThe future of one of England's most unique habitats could rest with play areas designed for children to interact with the rare environment, a science centre hopes.More than eight in 10 of the world's chalk streams are found in England, but the current prolonged hot and dry weather puts pressure on the wildlife that calls the rare waterways home.Winchester Science Centre, in Hampshire, has now created a play zone themed on the local landscape in the hope children will connect with the environments into adulthood.It comes as the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) threw its support…

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