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Hedgehog Discovery Day at Sydenham Hill Wood – Sunday 8 April

Join the London Wildlife at Sydenham Hill Wood for fun, family friendly activities and learn all about hedgehogs. Take home a clay hedgehog, tackle the footprint challenge, and see if you can make it to the end of our hedgehog survival game! Learn more about our hedgehog project, and how you can discover if there … Continue reading Hedgehog Discovery Day at Sydenham Hill Wood – Sunday 8 April

The Fourth Reserve

The Fourth Reserve write;   The Fourth Reserve is a Conservation Trust established in 2016 to safeguard the natural heritage of South East London's New Cross to Forest Hill cutting. Started as a small Friends Group’ living in the vicinity of the railway corridor, the group is concerned about one section of railway corridor in … Continue reading The Fourth Reserve

Have you seen a Hedgehog?

The London Wildlife Trust writes.... London Wildlife Trust’s ‘Urban Urchins’ started in August 2017 and is aiming to map the distribution of London’s hedgehog population. This is being achieved through the use of footprint tunnel and camera trap surveys across many of our own reserves, the creation of ‘detective kits’ for the public to use … Continue reading Have you seen a Hedgehog?

3 Rivers Clean Up 2108

  The first 3 Rivers Clean Up planning session will be taking place later this week. We hope that by the end o it we will have confirmed the dates for this year’s festival. We hope that will be able to overlap with London Rivers Week. This will be the 10th year that we have been … Continue reading 3 Rivers Clean Up 2108

Swifts & Enhancing Urban Biodiversity

An illustrated talk by Edward Mayer of Swift Conservation 22 February 2018, 19.00 to 21.00 Lewisham Council Chambers - Booking via Eventbrite This talk should be useful for planners, developers, architects, bird-watchers, nature lovers and anyone with an interest in how we live in our towns and cities   Swifts are our fastest bird in … Continue reading Swifts & Enhancing Urban Biodiversity

Nature’s Gym programme January – March 2018

  Please see attached the Nature’s Gym programme for January – March 2018. Our first session back will be on Thursday 11th January at Ladywell Fields. A post Christmas wade! You maybe interested to know that we’ve had over 600 volunteers attending over 50 sessions this year! This equates to over £18000 worth of worked … Continue reading Nature’s Gym programme January – March 2018

Crofton Park Railway Garden – Aviva Community Fund Bid

Crofton Park Railway Committee write: 12 days left to cast your votes A huge thank you to all those who have voted so far. But we need many, many more votes for a chance to secure the funding. Past winners in this category managed to gain a vote for every pound of funding. So we … Continue reading Crofton Park Railway Garden – Aviva Community Fund Bid