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UPCOMING WOODLANDS FARM WILDLIFE SURVEYSA few more dates for the diaries:
Thursday 25th June, 2pm - Meadow Plants Survey
Wednesday 8th July, 9.30pm - Bat Survey
Friday 10th July, 2pm - Bee Walk
Please let me know if you are able to attend these, especially if coming to the bat
survey.
Thank you.
Hannah Ricketts
Education Officer
Working Days: Monday and Wednesday - Friday.
The Woodlands Farm Trust
331 Shooters Hill
Welling
Kent
DA16 3RP
Tel: 020 8319 8900
Danson wildlife walk, 28/6. Pre-booking essential. Not sure if still places left, but may be worth asking if there's a 'substitutes' list if places all nominally taken ....
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FRIENDS OF FOOTS CRAY MEADOWS - LITTER PICK, SATURDAY 6th JUNE.FFCM run a litter clearance session on the meadows on the first Saturday of each month. The next one is on 6th June starting at 10a.m.
For details see:
Community litter pick on the meadows | Foots Cray Meadows
www.footscraymeadows.org
Being the first Saturday of the month, on 6 June the Information Centre will be open from 10.00 until about 13.00 during which time we plan to do a litter pick on the meadows. Volunteers are welcome a...
WOODLANDS FARM - BEE SURVEY WALK POSTPONEDWith the weather being rather wet and unpredictable I have decided to cancel the bee walk tomorrow (4th June).
It has been rescheduled to Wednesday 17th June.
Hopefully see you then.
Hannah Ricketts <education@thewoodlandsfarmtrust.org>
Education Officer
Working Days: Monday and Wednesday - Friday.
The Woodlands Farm Trust
331 Shooters Hill
Welling
Kent
DA16 3RP
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Please respond to UPCOMING CONSULTATIONS WITH MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS!
There are a number of consultation deadlines looming on Bexley Council (‘Growth’ strategy, Budget, Flood Review) and key GLA (London Infrastructure plan to 2050) and Transport for London (east London river crossings – yet again) proposals, all of which have … Continue reading
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Bursted Woods school under fire over proposed ‘prison camp’ fence by popular open space, and threats to Sparrow habitat
Local residents are strongly objecting to plans by Bursted Woods school to erect a long 2.1 metre (7′) tall metal fence along the access road at the western end of this well-used open space and Site of Importance for Nature … Continue reading
Posted in Bursted Woods, Education, Light pollution, Planning, SINC
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Kent wildlife conference, October 2014
Saturday 18 October 2014 Grimond Lecture Theatre 1 University of Kent, Canterbury Campus Organised by the Kent Field Club (Kent’s natural history society). Having been to a couple of these events in the past, they are well worth attending if … Continue reading
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LWT announces August and early September Braeburn Park workdays
London Wildlife Trust is getting down to work in earnest at its new Braeburn Park reserve to the south of Hall Place, and just up the road from Crayford railway station, offering new conservation volunteering opportunities for people in this … Continue reading
LWT offers training in power tool use and conservation management
Contact person: Shaun Marriott Reserves Officer (South) smarriott@wildlondon.org.uk Mob: 07710 194268 From Mon, 15th until Sun, 21st September London Wildlife Trust will be running the annual residential/camping week, based at Fryland’s Wood Scout camp site, working on some of the … Continue reading
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Karen nurtures next generation of nature-lovers
Summer comes to Crossness Members of the Smiley Ark Summer Club visited Crossness Nature Reserve yesterday. Arriving by public transport from their local base in Belvedere, the kids, with an age range of 5 to 9, were excited to visit … Continue reading
Foots Cray Meadows river habitat enhancement programme continues apace
Thames21 River Cray Project officer Michael Heath writes: Our plan to put the River Cray at Foots Cray Meadows back on the map as a premiere habitat for wildlife, and a natural and recreational feature for the local community, is … Continue reading
Posted in Foots Cray Meadows, Rivers, Volunteering
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London biological records centre publishes latest online newsletter
Greenspace information for Greater London (GiGL), the capital’s biological records and open spaces database centre, has just published its latest online newsletter at: http://www.gigl.org.uk/gigler Articles include: – a ‘Wildlife, wildlife everywhere’ piece giving a good overview of what GiGL does … Continue reading
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SlugWatch UK seeks to map alien ‘Spanish Slug’ distribution
SlugWatch UK is on a mission to discover how widespread the ‘Spanish Slug’, Arion vulgaris, has become since first being identified in the UK in the early spring of 2012. http://www.slugwatch.co.uk/ This species is more damaging than native kinds, and is reported … Continue reading
Posted in Invertebrates, Molluscs, Recording
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Four out of 5 top search engines put Bexley Wildlife first
BexleyWildlife.org – or the associated Facebook page – now tops the list of suggested sites when ‘Bexley wildlife’ or ‘wildlife Bexley’ is put into the Google, Bing, Yahoo or AOL search engines, coming up ahead of the biodiversity pages on … Continue reading
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