Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
The Sid Valley Biodiversity Group is carrying out a year-long survey of the valley’s herbaceous plants recording what is in flower each month. This is a citizen scientist project with volunteers from the group noting which flowers they see when out walking around theRead More
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Hedgehog Mapping. Hedgehogs Are On The Decline Across The U.K. So It’s Vital We Map Where They Are Found. There’s a national hedgehog mapping system where you can report hedgehog sightings, dead or alive … we hope you find plenty of live ones. YouRead More
Leave a comment The Quality Of The Water In Our Rivers & Streams Impacts Biodiversity. But How Is Quality Assessed? And Who Conducts Water Quality Monitoring Tests? Water quality can be tested in various ways with some evidence of pollution being visually obvious whilst other measures needRead More
Leave a comment There are plenty of flowers in bloom at present… in our hedges, woods, cliff tops and even on our beaches. These are a few seen in the last few days in the Sid Valley. What have you seen? If you need helpRead More
Leave a comment In This Video John Walters Discusses Meadow Butterflies Including Meadow Browns, Large Skipper, Small Skipper, Marbled Whites, Small Tortoiseshell, Smal Pearl Bordered Fritillary and Dark Green Fritillary. When I was young the air above meadows seemed to be alive with butterflies. My grandfatherRead More
Leave a comment UK Climate Change Advisors Recommend a Huge Tree Planting Boom And Say That Airlines And Oil Companies Should Pay For It. Tell Us What You Think. A recent article in New Scientist, discusses the proposals by the Committee for Climate Change (CCC). The proposalsRead More
Leave a comment The Deer Population Of The UK Is At An All-Time High With Six Species of Deer in the Country and An Estimated 2+Million Deer In Total. But Most People Rarely, Or Never, See Deer In The Sid Valley Though most deer species are quiteRead More
Leave a comment Meadows And Flowers Go Together. And Meadow Flowers Encourage Bees, Bugs, Beetles, Birds And Much More. In this video ecologist John Walters looks at the flowers found in meadows and the one plant that contributes more to meadows than any other, the Meadow Maker,Read More
Leave a comment How To Create A Meadow Is The Subject Of This Video From Moor Meadows. Creating meadows and managing roadside verges isn’t difficult if we follow simple processes that work with nature rather than against it. Meadows have significantly decreased in numbers in recentRead More
Leave a comment Life in the Meadow: Bees, Is An Exploration of Wild Bees of All Sorts, That Make Their Homes In Meadows and Along Roadside Verges. Bees is the first in a series of videos produced by Moor Meadows. We are aiming to include their videosRead More
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