Greenway Pollinator Trail
The Greenway Pollinator Trail, features over 6km of wildflower verges designed to improve the natural environment and biodiversity along the Greenway and beyond. The Greenway is a traffic free route running above Thames Water’s Northern Outfall Sewer that winds right through the middle of Newham.
The meadows along the Greenway have been sown with a mix of wildflowers and grasses to create a thriving habitat for the bees, butterflies, moths and other wildlife whose role as pollinators is so important to the environment.
The pollinator trail includes four specially designed habitat areas where you can learn more about the bees and butterflies that you may be able to spot here. You can also learn what plants have been introduced to help them thrive.
The Greenway Pollinator Trail has been created with funding from The Mayor of London’s Rewild London Fund.
Developed in partnership with nature experts
Newham Council worked in close partnership with Butterfly Conservation (Big City Butterflies), Bumblebee Conservation, Denis J Vickers (Consultant Ecologist) and volunteer rangers from London National Park City throughout the design and development of the trail. Pollinator-themed community workshops were held in local libraries and Ranelagh Primary School. Families and pupils from local schools who also were involved in planting activities.
Butterfly Conservation
Bumbleebee Conservation Trust
London National Park City
