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  • Wildlife Groundswell newsletter 03-24

    What’s on? Upcoming events Meeting & walkabout Sunday 17 March, 11.30am, Trethewey Farm, St Martin TR12 6EG How to make the most of a wildlife friendly space, big or small? For anyone interested in joining a small group in Wildlife Groundswell to develop wildlife friendly management of whatever land we have. There will be tea,…

  • Update February 2024: Back to the future: restoring threatened metapopulations on the Lizard Peninsula

    Update February 2024: Back to the future: restoring threatened metapopulations on the Lizard Peninsula

    A progress update on The Lizard’s Species Recovery Programme-funded projectFebruary 2024 Over the winter period, the focus of our Species Recovery Programme within The Lizard NNR, Back to the Future: restoring threatened metapopulations on the Lizard Peninsula, has been habitat management works. This follows completion of various vegetation, vascular plant, lichen and bryophyte surveys that have been…

  • Wildlife Groundswell: swift and bat box making

    Wildlife Groundswell: swift and bat box making

    Wildlife Groundswell and Cornwall National Landscape organised two workshops on the 9th and 10th February 2024 to make swift and bat boxes. Both days were great fun and productive – thanks to all the volunteers! Putting up the Swift boxes They now want to get on with putting up the swift boxes before the swifts…

  • Wildlife Groundswell November newsletter

    As an antidote to the Black Friday madness, we’re sending you a dose of natural goodness this weekend… It was great to see so many of you at our annual conference, Let’s Get Wild! Air & Fire in September. Read on for new blog posts from the conference and ‘fringe/ events – as well as a host of activities…

  • September newsletter

    This month, we’re focusing on our annual conference – Air and Fire on 23 September – and the NEW line-up of fringe events leading up to it, which we’re excited to announce below. The fringe events start THIS MONDAY 18 SEPTEMBER, so don’t miss out! Read on for details and how book, and remember to bring along friends, neighbours…

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  • Wildlife Groundswell 6-23

    Hope you’re all well and enjoying the sunshine. We’re trying a new format for our June newsletter – hope you like it. Wildlife Groundswell business update: becoming a CIC Our Committee, together with some of our members, met on 10 May to discuss whether to change from being a small unincorporated association to being a…

  • Conservation and land management

    Together, we work hard to look after and enhance biodiversity on The Lizard. Conservation managers, landowners and farmers all play a very important role. We intend soon to publish nature-friendly conservation and land management information on these pages. We hope they will be of interest to landowners and farmers as well as other local residents and…

  • Wildlife Groundswell

    Wildlife Groundswell is a community action group based on The Lizard; we are a group of wildlife enthusiasts, small landowners and farmers who are working together for the benefit of nature. Find out more on our website. We want to achieve the following aims: 1. Grow and connect nature friendly spaces Through joined-up action across…

  • Help from home

    Helping wildlife at home or in your local patch: There are lots of things you can do for wildlife from the comfort of your own home garden or local area. Many organisations have citizen science surveys that you can help with and you don’t need to be an expert to take part. Below are some links…