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Free trees from the Woodland Trust
In partnership with Lloyds Banking Group, the Woodland Trust is delighted to be giving away thousands of trees to farmers across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. If you’re a farmer or land manager in Norfolk, Suffolk or Essex, you can apply for 50 or 100 saplings to tackle tree disease, boost biodiversity and increase farm resilience.…
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Shooting Stars at Munnings Art Museum
The next event for the Dedham Dark Skies Campaign is the annual Perseids Shooting Stars Party. This will be held at 8:30pm on August 12th at Munnings Art Museum, Castle House, Castle Hill, Dedham, Colchester, Essex CO7 6AZ. There will be two talks about meteors and how to photograph them whilst waiting for the skies to…
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Join us for a free pollinator evening
Join the Wilder Together in the Stour Valley Partnership to find out more about these important animals and how you can help them thrive in your community. Our free event is taking place at RSPB Flatford Wildlife Garden, Flatford Rd, East Bergholt, Colchester CO7 6UL on Friday 26th September from 10:00am – 12:00pm. For more…
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Volunteer opportunities at Bottengoms
Essex Wildlife Trust has been left Bottengoms, Wormingford. This was formerly the home of John Nash, gardener and painter, and latterly Ronald Blyth, author. Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Blythe is regarded as one of the founders of contemporary nature writing. His elegiac portrait of vanishing life in the countryside in his most famous book ‘Akenfield’ made him known…
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New Lakefly citizen science project launched
The Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) are developing a new citizen science project called Lakefly. This project is focused on monitoring shoreline freshwater invertebrates in lakes. Lakefly builds on the success and impact of the Riverfly method, extending it to the under-monitored world of lakes. Lakes are generally under monitored in comparison to rivers, and Lakefly—developed…