Countryside Management Association News

What’s your icon of the environment?

To celebrate their 10th birthday in 2006, the Environment Agency are working with ICONS to find out what you think is the top icon of the environment in England and Wales. It could be a place of particular natural beauty, a native animal or plant, an ecological project or movement – there are hundreds of possibilities.

You can browse through the list of the first few nominations, or if you don’t find your own icon of the environment on the list, you can nominate it yourself!

The initial 12 suggested icons are:

Dartmoor
Eden Project
Hedgerows
Bluebell Woods
Barn Owl
Bicycle
Hedgehog
Thames Barrier
Salmon
Wind farms
Otter
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Environment Agency Director of Corporate Affairs Helen McCallum said:
“The short-listed ICONS of the Environment embrace a range of natural heritage species and habitats that we revere; human ingenuity that showcases integration with the environment and symbols of our increasing efforts to protect the planet from over-exploitation."

Jerry Doyle, ICONS’ Managing Director said:
“The ICONS of the Environment launch coincides with the unveiling of 21 new additions to the main ICONS’ – A Portrait of England collection. Growing ever bigger and richer in content, the total number of official Icons now stands at 74. Appropriately, England’s natural beauty, habitat and landscape are strongly featured in this latest wave, with icons including the robin, the English weather, the Thames and the Peak District."

The winning icon will be announced in the New Year.