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Back to the future: restoring threatened metapopulations on the Lizard Peninsula
Species Recovery Programme 2023/2024 The Natural England National Nature Reserve (NNR) team on The Lizard in Cornwall have been successful in securing £216k of Species Recovery Programme funding to support […]
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The story of The Lizard’s Choughs
Choughs are among the most iconic birds of The Lizard. Locals and visitors alike love to see them, feeding in the short turf of the coast or soaring in the […]
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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 […]
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Nightjar
Summer visitors to the UK, the churring call of the male nightjar is an iconic sound of warm heathland evenings. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt
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Nightjar
Video: Chris WaddleVisitor Experience and Community Engagement Lead Advisor (Cornwall and Devon) Male Nightjar I managed to record at Dry Tree last night View Larger Map
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Inspiring visitors about nature and/or heritage
Between the Linking The Lizard Partnership organisations, we look after some very popular visitor sites. Many of these are outdoor places that people enjoy independently; others have staff and volunteers […]
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Livestock care
The National Trust and Natural England keep ponies, and work with local farmers to help maintain the conservation grazing programmes that are vitally important for various rare species across The […]
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Wildlife surveys
Whether you’re a budding enthusiast or wildlife specialist, you might be able to help us monitor wildlife across the Peninsula. There’s a broad range of projects and initiatives you can […]
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Beach cleaning and litter picking
Beach cleaning and litter picking are rewarding and a great excuse to spend time outdoors in stunning places, while helping to keep them clean, beautiful and safe for everybody to […]
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Practical access and conservation tasks
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Get involved
Volunteering with us is a great way to spend time outdoors and discover some of our special places, while doing ‘good stuff’ for people and nature. We have a range of […]
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Some rare migrants: dragonflies and a locust
In this article, originally published as a blog post on our website in 2019, Tony Blunden describes some of the migratory dragon- and damselflies you might be lucky enough to […]
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Identifying the three ‘Emperor’ dragonflies
In this article, Dougy Wright, warden of Windmill Farm Nature Reserve on The Lizard, explains how to tell three related species of dragonfly apart: the Emperor, the Lesser Emperor and […]
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