Tag: The Lizard
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Common Mussel
The Common (or Blue) Mussel is a common find on our shores. Look for them attached to rocks in rockpools, and in the zone between high and low tide. Photo: Amanda Scott
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Willow woes
During the summer of 2023 there was a subtle but significant browning of the leaves on some of the Grey Willow, Salix cinerea, in the willow carr (wet woodland) at Penrose. Although noticeable we were unable to get to the bottom of the issue then. However, this year the browning leaves have returned with a vengeance…
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Back to the future: restoring threatened metapopulations on the Lizard Peninsula – update, August 2024
A progress update on The Lizard’s Species Recovery Programme-funded project Following our busy winter period of habitat management work across the west of the Lizard, we learnt in March 2024 that we had been successfully awarded Species Recovery Programme (SRP) funding to continue our Back to the Future Lizard SRP Project into a second year. This funding…
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Common Bird’s-foot Trefoil
If you ever wondered how Bird’s-foot Trefoil got its name, you have to wait for the seedpods to appear. Photo: Amanda Scott
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Nature recovery on The Lizard
The following is the text of a National Trust press release, issued on 27/3/2024, reporting on a landscape-scale project to conserve rare species on The Lizard, funded by Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme. Nature recovery on the Lizard is working from the ground up Down on the Lizard, in deepest Cornwall, a landscape-scale coastal project…
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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…
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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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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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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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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…