Cornwall Wildlife Trust hopes the works will help restore the dune habitat for rare wildlife.
Diggers are rejuvenating sand dunes in north Cornwall to help rare wildlife thrive on their slopes.
Penhale Dunes, the most extensive system of sand dunes in the county, are home to species including the silver-studded blue butterfly, skylarks and protected plants such as petalwort.Jon Cripps, a ranger with Cornwall Wildlife Trust said: "The work will look quite dramatic."However, this short-term disruption should create long-term benefits for lots of dune-adapted wildlife.
"We'll create open spaces for plants like sea holly and sea rocket to colonise and lots of warm sandy niches for the various insects that burrow into sand, such as the tiny silvery leaf-cutter bee, the minotaur dung beetle and the predatory bee-wolf wasp."He added: "We hope the scale of the work will allow the wind to whistle through the dunes and keep these areas mobile, dynamic and diverse for many years to come.
It is estimated that about 50% of Penhale Dunes, a 620-hectare site near Perranporth, was comprised of bare sand habitat in the 1940s.It said factors including a lack of large grazing animals eating dune plants and pollution causing greater soil fertility had contributed to dense vegetation and the spread of invasive plants.V-shaped notches will be created by diggers, and the area around these will also be stripped of turf, to encourage more dune "mobility", the trust said.
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