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Enquiries
General enquiries: please email: admin@the-lizard.org . Your message will be redirected to relevant members of the partnership. Specific enquiries: please use the About us link on the top menu, where you find contact details for all the organisations.
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Purple Sandpiper
Scan the rocks near Lizard Point in the winter months, and you may be lucky enough to find a flock of hard-to-see Purple Sandpipers. Photo: By Myosotis Scorpioides at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Frogs eager to breed in Cornwall
The common frog Rana temporaria is a familiar sight across the UK. In any shallow standing water you are likely to come across tell-tale clumps of spawn, and tadpoles and froglets vying for survival, not above eating their siblings if needs must! But just when can you expect to find frogspawn and tadpoles in your…
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A Summary of Sightings at Windmill Farm National Nature Reserve
Another great year at Windmill Farm! Cornwall Wildlife Trust and the CBWPS continue to provide excellent support to the upkeep, development and regeneration of the farm back to its natural habitat. Windmill Farm is, by design and nature, a boggy environment and heavy rain can cause the footpaths to become muddy – I advise that…
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Roe Deer
Although still more common in eastern and central Cornwall, Roe Deer have more recently been spreading further west, including to The Lizard. Windmill Farm is a good place to see them. Photo: Amanda Scott
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Holly
“Deck the halls with boughs of holly”…Perhaps the favourite plant for Christmas decorations, Holly is also one of our most familiar woodland shrubs. Look out for its evergreen leaves on The Lizard throughout the year. Photo: Amanda Scott
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Turnstones on the Helford
The UK hosts an important overwintering population of Turnstones. Watch out for them on rockier shores round the Lizard coastline. Turnstones on the Helford Ray Surridge on Vimeo. Read more….
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Blue Roundhead
the beautiful Blue Roundhead is usually associated with summer and autumn, but might linger on into the winter. Photo: Steve Townsend
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Rabbit
We’re very familiar with rabbits in Britain, but did you know they are in serious decline in their native range in south-west Europe? Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt
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Lizard Wildlife
The Lizard is especially known for its wonderful flora and the diversity of butterflies and moths that it attracts, as well as its birdlife. There are, however, plenty of other species to be found here. Click on the icons above to find out more about the richness of the marine life in the…
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Volunteering – Wildlife Watching and Surveys
Between us – the Linking the Lizard partner organisations – we own and manage a considerable area of land on the Lizard. Unfortunately, there just isn’t enough time in the year to get around all of our land to survey the variety of wildlife that it hosts. More and more we are relying on volunteers…
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Working Holidays & Traineeships
Working Holidays with the National Trust At the heart of rich farmland and woodland in the Penrose Estate near Loe Bar, the National Trust offer several working holidays each year. Join us for a week in the woods as we carry out traditional management in our semi-ancient woodland bordering Loe Pool (Cornwall’s largest…
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Volunteering in Outdoor Education
Many of the educational activities and community events held outdoors on the Lizard are run by the Wild Lizard Education Ranger, through The Wild Lizard Project. The project is funded by several partnership organisations, including the National Trust, Natural England, Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Helford Voluntary Marine Conservation Group. Through the Wild Lizard Project…
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Natural England – Practical Countryside Volunteering
National Nature Reserves throughout the country are there for both people and wildlife – places to enjoy nature, to take some exercise and to escape from the pressures of modern life. Volunteers come from all sorts of backgrounds with hugely varied skills and experience. For example, our current team includes a retired printer, a zoology student,…
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National Trust – Practical Countryside Volunteering
Our conservation work covers over 1000 hectares of diverse land, from beaches and cliffs to inland heathlands and wooded valleys. Our work aims to maintain a delicate balance between protecting important wildlife habitats and landscapes and providing good access to enable people to discover and enjoy them. Coast and countryside volunteering with the…
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Lizard Ancient Sites Network – Practical Countryside Volunteering
LAN is the acronym for the Lizard Ancient sites Network, a group of volunteers set up in 2009 to look after the prehistoric and early medieval sites on the Lizard peninsula. We work closely with Cornwall Council’s Historic Environment service, Natural England and the National Trust on the Lizard. We look after a wide variety of…
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