Wildlife
Barkbooth Lot Nature Reserve Featured
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.ukBarkbooth Lot is situated near the head of the Winster Valley and includes rough fell land, oak woodland and meadow. The reserve has been extended recently, doubling its size and staff have worked to repair walls and fences and add gates. Livestock a ...
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Bee Creative Featured
www.breweryarts.co.ukBee Creative is an education project run by the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal, aiming to increase understanding of the importance of different types of bees for the environment and our food chain. Local primary school children will get involved in scienc ...
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Clints Quarry Nature Reserve Featured
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.orgClints Quarry, a dramatic looking nature reserve with vertical cliff faces up to 20 metres high, was created when the area was quarried for limestone. The limestone was used for agriculture, building and the local steel industry but quarrying ended in 193 ...
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Cumbria Outdoors Sustainability Programme Featured
www.cumbriaoutdoors.comThe Cumbria Outdoors Sustainability Programme delivers hands-on environmental education to school children across Cumbria. The programme offers 3-5 day residential courses to groups of primary school children, encouraging them to think about sustainab ...
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Cumbria Water Vole Project Featured
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.ukWork has been underway to protect the water vole in Cumbria, as the animal that inspired the beloved character 'Ratty' from the Wind in the Willows has become Britain’s fastest declining mammal. Once common and widespread, water vole numbers have plummete ...
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Dorothy Farrer’s Spring Wood Featured
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.Dorothy Farrer’s Spring Wood is made up of three separate areas of woodland: High Wood, Dorothy Farrer’s Spring Wood and Beddard’s Wood. All three areas have been managed as coppice woodland in the past with timber from the coppicing used for bobbins, s ...
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Experience the River Featured
www.scrt.org.ukSouth Cumbria Rivers Trust works to protect and conserve the aquatic environments of South Cumbria. In order to achieve this they provide a local education programme aimed at giving the both the local population and visitors an appreciation of our waters ...
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Flora of the Fells Featured
www.floraofthefells.comFlora of the Fells is about getting people of all ages and backgrounds involved with Cumbria’s outstanding landscapes. Landscape, wildlife and people go hand in hand so it’s vital that people get to know and love their local area and learn how to protect ...
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Great Knott Wood Featured
www.woodlandtrust.org.ukGreat Knott Wood is an ancient woodland, covering 34 hectares, on the south west shore of Lake Windermere. It has one of the highest densities of woodland cover anywhere in northern England, with oak, sycamore ash, alder, birch, beech and larch! In spring ...
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Grizedale Red Kites Featured
www.forestry.gov.ukRed Kites were wiped out almost completely in the UK by 1900. But over the last 100 years Red Kite populations have improved following reintroduction projects in Wales, Yorkshire, North East England and South West Scotland. However, natural range expan ...
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Ivy Crag Wood Featured
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.ukIvy Crag Wood is a small remnant of mature oak woodland on the slopes of Dodd, below Skiddaw, near Keswick. The majority of woodland on Dodd was planted at the end of the 18th century, and has been used since then for commercial forestry. Ivy Crag Wood is ...
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Lake District Osprey Project Featured
www.ospreywatch.co.ukIn 2001 ospreys made a momentous return to the Lake District, after being extinct in England for decades. The ospreys now return from Africa to their nest near Bassenthwaite Lake each spring and more than 19 chicks have fledged since they returned. The vi ...
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Rusland Valley Owl Project Featured
www.owls.orgThe World Owl Trust has been monitoring barn owls for a number of years in an area covering the Rusland Valley and Grizedale Forest. They are concerned that breeding pairs of barn owls are not using the south or west of the area, and believe that while th ...
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Save our Squirrels Featured
www.saveoursquirrels.orgThe red squirrel is our only native British squirrel but is at serious risk of extinction if population numbers continue to decline. The main cause of this decline is competition with the American grey squirrel, an introduced species which is larger than ...
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Smardale Gill Nature Reserve Featured
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.ukSmardale Gill National Nature Reserve runs along a section of disused railway line and is dominated by the magnificent structure of Smardale Viaduct. The railway cuttings and embankments have developed into limestone grassland and are rich in plant specie ...
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Warton Crag Butterflies Featured
www.lancswt.org.ukWarton Crag nature reserve is part of the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and overlooks Morecambe Bay in Lancashire. The reserve has a rich variety of habitats including areas of limestone pavement and ledges, with mixed woodland ...
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