Harry Woolner is a trainee with the TCV Natural Communities Project and is on a placement with Buglife. Amongst his community engagement projects he has been taking participants out to learn about their local wildlife. Here ...
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Conservation
It’s too cold to go outside! Nope – time for a worm survey
Despite what you might think, Citizen Science is not just a spring and summer activity. There are a number of surveys that can still be carried out over the winter months. TCV's OPAL community citizen scientist Amy Styles ...
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Old Aisle Cemetery
On Monday the group were out working on a project at Old Aisle Cemetery near Kirkintilloch in East Dunbartonshire. At this site, we were planting wildflowers in amongst areas of grass meadow, forest, and on banking near the ...
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More tasks around Muiravonside
Last week the midweek groups again worked at Muiravonside Country Park near falkirk, where we did some clearing of footpaths and the old favourite, cutting and burning Rhododendron, which we did on the both the Wednesday and ...
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Into the Rhododendron forest again!
So sorry that this blog entry is quite late, as our usual blog updater suffered an eye injury but anyway here it is.
Last Thursday (9th February) another thrilling day of Rhododendron destruction at the scenic West ...
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