London Gatwick has achieved The Wildlife Trust’s Biodiversity Benchmark Award for efforts to protect and enhance 91 hectares of land surrounding the airport for 10 years running. This prestigious award places London Gatwick among just 16 organisations to hold the certification, celebrating its outstanding stewardship of natural habitats, setting a gold standard in biodiversity management.
Over 23,000 passionate volunteers, local schools, and community groups have actively participated in the airports biodiversity initiatives in the past decade. Their efforts have helped protect and enhance 91 hectares of land surrounding the airport, nurturing ecosystems that support more than 3,000 species of plants, animals, and fungi, including rare and threatened species like nightingales and great crested newts.
London Gatwick’s collaboration with the Gatwick Greenspace Partnership has been instrumental in enhancing grassland, woodland, hedgerows, and wetland areas as part of its Biodiversity Action Plan.
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