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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…
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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…
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Funding received for the National Trust’s Lizard Rarities Project
The Lizard is one of the most biodiverse areas in the country, renowned for unique assemblages of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens – many of which are confined to the Lizard. However, despite the Lizard retaining large areas of semi-natural habitat, many of these species are in decline due to the impacts of climate change,…
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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 July & August -23
Hope you’re all well and having a good summer, despite the recent wild weather. We love all things wild, but… Read on for a dose of proper summer (butterflies, wildflowers and clifftop walks), some events THIS WEEK (scroll down!) and a positive look ahead to autumn with our annual conference, Air & Fire, in September.…
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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 the recovery of a suite of rare species on the Lizard Peninsula. The Lizard has been famed amongst naturalists, and especially botanists, since the late…
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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 air on outstretched wings, red legs and red bills bright against their black feathers. It’s hard to believe that they were absent from The Lizard’s…
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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…
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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 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…
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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 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…
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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 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…
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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 onsite to help welcome visitors and invite them to hear more about the special places they are visiting. If you are interested in talking to…
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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 Lizard. These species include Three-lobed Crowfoot, Land Quillwort, Yellow Centaury, Pygmy Rush, many rare clovers and the much-loved Cornish Choughs (to name but a few).…
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