I have recently been busy helping to form a community group in Ravenswood, Cumbernauld. The group is made up of local people interested in their local green space, Ravenswood Local Nature Reserve. This area has an orchid ...
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Ravenswood Local Nature Reserve
One of the sites Froglife are working on as part of the Living Waters project is Burngreen Park in Kilsyth. After discussion with Burngreen Park Friends of Group we decided not to dig a pond there, but to create a bog ...
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Tadpoles in the classroom
On 28th April it was ‘Save the Frogs’ day. To celebrate this day Froglife held an event at Festival Park, Glasgow with the Glasgow City Council rangers and Helen, my fellow Natural Communities trainee. Here we did pond ...
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Frogs, toads and newts!
March, April and May are busy months for Froglife as they are the time of peak activity for frogs, toads and newts. All this activity is recorded by Froglife at their Living Waters Project sites in North Lanarkshire and ...
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The Dragons’ Den
It has been a busy and exciting couple of months since I began the Natural Communities traineeship and I am greatly enjoying my placement with Froglife.
To celebrate National Science and Engineering Week, on 17th March ...
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