Jersey exhibition celebrates Channel Islands biodiversity

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More than 200 images, taken by 40 photographers from Jersey and Guernsey, have been included in the exhibition

A new exhibition that celebrates biodiversity across the Channel Islands has opened.

Jersey Heritage is staging "Wild Islands': through the lens" in the newly built museum space at Hamptonne, St Lawrence.

More than 200 images, taken by 40 photographers from Jersey and Guernsey, have been put on show at the museum.

Chris Addy, sites curator, said it would portray the vast biodiversity in the Channel Islands.

He said: "More than 200 images, printed on banners, capture the incredibly rich biodiversity we have in the Channel Islands, from birds, insects and mammals, to wildflowers, fungi and sea life."

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Birds, including the Cirl Bunting, will be on display alongside other mammals and sea life
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