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Mental Health Awareness Week – Wild Ways Well

May 12, 2017 by paulbarclay

Stick your hand up if you know someone who has suffered - at some point in their lives – from poor mental health… So that’s everyone then. This week is mental health awareness week.  It’s a brilliant initiative, ...
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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Health, mental health, nature, wellbeing

Gowan Hill Bioblitz

November 16, 2016 by TCV Stirling

Today we went up Gowan Hill beside Stirling Castle and did a bioblitz. We took a note of all the plant and wildlife species that we could see. There were five species of tree: willow, birch, hawthorn, elder and poplar. ...
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Filed Under: Citizen Science, Conservation Volunteer Team Tagged With: bioblitz, Conservation, gowanhill, lichen, nature, scottish wildlife, Stirling, trees

Wonderful Worms with Uplawmoor Primary School

November 8, 2016 by Citizen Science Blog

As part of TCV’s Scotland Counts Project we visited Uplawmoor Primary School in Glasgow to play with worms! We had a fantastic Citizen Science filled day looking at the soil and earthworms in the school grounds and learning ...
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Filed Under: Citizen Science Tagged With: citizen science, earthworm, education, nature, soil, wildlife

TCV come to the Garden Rescue

November 2, 2016 by TCV Stirling

When the residents of a local housing association looked out of their back windows, there wasn't much to see apart from two rotary dryers and a forest of overgrown shrubs. There was nowhere to sit and very little space to ...
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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Conservation, conservation volutneers, garden, greenspace, nature, Scotland, Stirling, Volunteers

Fungi hunting at Muiravonside Country Park

October 14, 2016 by TCV Stirling

TCV Stirling's Wednesday group were at Muiravonside Country park to join in with the removal of Rhododendron ponticum and the invasive sycamore. Rhododendron are prolific seed producers and they will crowd out native flora if ...
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Filed Under: Citizen Science, Conservation Volunteer Team Tagged With: autumn, citizen science, fungi, Midweek Conservation Group, Muiravonside Country Park, mushroom, nature

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