A guided walk through New Cross Gate Cutting to take in the wonder of the dawn chorus.
Dawn chorus walk at New Cross Gate Cutting
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Family bird walk at New Cross Gate Cutting
Join London Wildlife Trust's Great North Wood team at New Cross Gate Cutting on Saturday 7th May 2022 for a birding walk.
City Nature Challenge
City Nature Challenge is an epic, global citizen science project to collect information about our local wildlife. In 2022 UK cities are collaborating with 400+ cities across the world to find and record as much wildlife as possible to help track how nature is bouncing back this spring!
Join a nature walk in Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries on 24th April
Meet Tom Moulton and Peter Robinson at the Ladywell Cemetery gate on 24th April at 2:30pm for an informative walk around the cemeteries observing the copious amounts of wild flowers, birds and, hopefully, butterflies.
Come on an Outfall Safari and help us raise awareness about river pollution!
It is five years since we ran our first Outfall Safari along the Ravensbourne river catchment and it’s time to run another health check on our rivers. This is an opportunity for volunteers from Keston to Deptford, from Eltham to Sydenham, to join us and help identify pollution hotspots and raise public awareness around drainage misconnections that can harm our rivers.
Friends of Blythe Hill Fields Social
We know so many people absolutely loved the successful 2021 festival, it was extremely popular and so much fun! Perhaps you browsed the stalls, kept the kids busy with the funfair and woodland stage or just soaked up the atmosphere listening to the live music on the main stage? It was an amazing event and we'd like it to happen again! However, our wonderful annual festival is in danger of not running this year as we're very low on volunteers. We also need a passionate secretary to help with the general admin throughout the year.
Tiny Forest Planting Day – Durham Hill
Earthwatch, Yeo Valley and Lewisham Council invite you to attend your local TinyForest tree planting day at Durham Hill. The event takes place on 28th February 11am-3pm.
St. Mary’s Church Therapeutic Garden volunteer day
On Saturday 5th February, we are having a community volunteer day, to try and dig out as much of the invasive 3-cornered garlic as possible, as it is spreading rapidly across large swathes of the churchyard. There will also be other tasks to do if volunteers prefer.
Happy Christmas from Nature’s Gym
Thank you for all of your help during 2021. It was lovely to have a relatively normal year after the cancellations of 2020.
Lewisham has the best parks in London
This year the London Borough of Lewisham came out top which a a great testament to all of the hard work of Friends Groups, volunteers, Glendale and the Nature Conservation team put in over the last year. We are always grateful for all of this hard work and this award would not be possible without their help.
Nature Conservation Lewisham 