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Wood Meadows, Flood Meadows and McMeadows
Last week was a meadows week for me, visiting Hagge Woods, followed by the annual Floodplain Meadows Partnership steering group meeting, in Northamptonshire. Wood Meadows Hagge Woods was a 25 acre barley field in 2012. It’s been converted into a … Continue reading
National Meadow Day
It’s National Meadow Day. I hadn’t noticed until today when I saw this piece on the BBC Earth website. The piece kindly references a report I wrote for Plantlife and the Wildlife Trusts about meadows back in 2002, called “Green … Continue reading
Biodiversity Challenge 2: Species
veteran tree with priority lichen species (c) Miles King Continuing on my theme for this week, which is about Biodiversity Challenge 20 years on, today I’m looking at what BC did for species conservation in Britain. As I said yesterday, … Continue reading
Biodiversity Challenge: 20 years on
It seems unbelievable to me but it is 20 years this week since the launch of “Biodiversity Challenge.”I am going to celebrate this anniversary with a series of blogs this week, and possibly next. Challenge, as it became known, was … Continue reading
Posted in Action Plans, biodiversity, biodiversity challenge, environmental policy
Tagged biodiversity, Biodiversity Challenge, Butterfly Conservation, Conservation, Convention on Biological Diversity, Environment, Friends of the Earth, Plantlife, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Site of Special Scientific Interest, Wildlife Trusts
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One man went to mow….managing public space for wildflowers
Have you ever been stunned that a nice patch of wildflowers on a road verge, village green or park gets mown down just when it’s at its peak of beauty and utility? Me too. So I was delighted to see … Continue reading
Posted in bees, biodiversity, greenspace, management, meadows, public land, road verges
Tagged management, Maumbury Rings, meadows, Neolithic, Plantlife, public land, Wildflower, Wildlife
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a new nature blog 