Drew Bennellick

New Carbon Garden at Kew Gardens - worth a visit - simple interpretation, clear messaging and nice pavilion

Nature Towns and Cities launches with £15million investment We’re supporting 40 towns and cities across the UK to improve and create accessible green spaces, streets and neighbourhoods.

We’ve announced a £15million investment in Nature Towns and Cities, a UK-wide mission to enable millions of people to enjoy nature and green space close to home. It’s a partnership with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, National Trust and Natural England. www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/nature-...

Woodland Trust report calls for action to save woodland wildlife - BBC News Nearly a quarter of Surrey is covered in woodland but the quality is declining, says Woodland Trust.

Now we need to save our woodlands. Woodland Trust ‘State of Woodlands’ new report. 37% drop in woodland birds since 1995. 47% drop in woodland butterflies between 1990 and 2022. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Citizen Science Coordinator (Chalk Streams) We are seeking a motivated professional with experience in recruiting, coordinating and facilitating volunteer activities for citizen scientists to conduct research and monitoring effectively, safely ...

JOB VACANCY!

Citizen Science Coordinator with the Chiltern Chalk Streams Project

Want to support conservation of chalk streams, conduct research and work with citizen scientists? Apply below

Deadline: 30 June 

Excited to announce this new Landscape Connections project today! www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/scotlan...

Future of reds looks rosy thanks to massive funding award | Northumberland Wildlife Trust Northumberland Wildlife Trust is delighted to have received an amazing £4.86m from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for the five-year Red Squirrel Recovery Network (RSRN) project.

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social Hi Chris. If you are talking about red squirrels on @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social next week any chance you could name check National Lottery Heritage Fund and this brilliant new project we’ve just funded. Massive boost for our fave mammal. www.nwt.org.uk/news/future-...

Free online conference on creating nature towns and cities. 5 June. Supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.org.uk and @naturalengland.bsky.social naturetownsandcities.org.uk/event/creati...

Met members of Peakland Environmental Farmers and Swaledale & Wensleydale Environmental Farmers this week with @heritagefunduk Trustee Julian Glover. Supported with some grant funding they plan to work collaboratively across nearly 200 farms to help nature recover.

Audley End, Saffron Walden dating from 1831. William Sawrey Gilpin parterre “Gilpin obliged with a parterre garden stretching out towards the Temple of Concord and composed of 170 geometric flower beds crisply cut from the turf - no yew hedges, no clipped box.” @englishheritage.bsky.social

Image of a Starling perched with wording alongside reading: Birds in Greenspaces survey. Can you help? www.bto.org/greenspaces-pilot. Image credit: Starling © Edmund Fellowes/BTO. BTO logo sits top right of image.

Calling all nature lovers in cities, towns and villages! 🐦🦆 Have you signed up to our Birds in Greenspaces pilot survey yet? ➡️ bit.ly/birds-greensp... #UKBirding #Birds

📢We’re hiring an Events and Special Projects Coordinator!
This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who is passionate about Nature Recovery and wants to work with a team that really makes a difference! 🌳 We have some exciting events in the pipeline that you could lead! Deadline 11th April!

‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing Five thousand new homes alongside a paradise for newts appears to fly in face of government’s ‘false wedge’

Good article about when developers and wildlife trusts can work together www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Find out more about Changing Chalk here: www.southdowns.gov.uk/wildlife-hab...

Wrong trees in the wrong place can make cities hotter at night, study reveals While trees can cool some cities significantly during the day, new research shows that tree canopies can also trap heat and raise temperatures at night. The

Wrong trees in the wrong place can make cities hotter at night, study reveals

While trees can cool some cities significantly during the day, new research shows that tree canopies can also trap heat and raise temperatures at night.

www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Beautiful afternoon to visit the newly completed restoration works at Greenwich Park supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social. Avenue planting, 1661 Grand Ascent reinstated, view point refurbished and new education garden. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Magnolia stellata ‘roses’. Stunning.

Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts

Humans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, one of the most exhaustive global studies on the subject ever conducted finds.

This is *us*, people: you + me. It's up to all of us to get into the fight for the natural world. 🌏
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New national forest to see 20m trees planted across West by 2050 The government says the new Western Forest project will help the UK meet its tree-planting targets.

Great to see that one of three new national forests is planned for the west of England.

Positive there’s a focus on urban areas too (including Bristol) where trees are going to play a crucial role in supporting climate resilience.

Excellent work👏👍

Feeling very seen... 😝
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trainee Gardener - Historic & Botanic Garden Training Programme with English Heritage, various garden locations around the UK, full-time for 12 months. If gardening is your passion and you want to make it your career, apply now!
See: c-js.co.uk/4imaQvT

Archaeology Training Excavation / Fieldschool Looking for fieldwork experience and skills training? CHAP (Chilterns Heritage & Archaeology Partnership) offers a training excavation!

I'm officially launching this tomorrow with a newsletter thru work and the CHAP initiative, but Bluesky gets a sneaky preview. please share amongst students, friends, enthusiasts. It's going to be a good summer for #archaeology in the @chilternsnl.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1272753914...

Two trustees wanted by The Ernest Cook Trust. One focused on land management and one on growth. Paid too! join-ernestcooktrust.co.uk/all-roles/

Digital Communications Officer | Good Law Project Join the team at Good Law Project

If you can create brilliant social media content across a range of channels and you want to work for a better world we're hiring. goodlawproject.org/vacancy/digi...

Sorry only just spotted @urbanparksgirl.bsky.social has moved over👍

Good to see this MHCLG report published. “Integrating parks and green spaces into the strategic vision and core strategies of the local authority underpins successful practices”. Learning from Heritage Fund supported Future Parks project in LB Islington. 👍 www.gov.uk/government/p...

A bumblebee dusted in yellow pollen sitting in a greyed-out flower. Text reads: 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees since records began.

It’s official, 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees since records began🚨

The latest findings from #BeeWalk, our national bumblebee monitoring scheme, have revealed bumblebee numbers declined by almost a quarter (22.5%) across Great Britain💔

Read on: www.bumblebeeconservation.org/british-bumb...

An open wooden drawer containing pinned butterflies of varying sizes and patterns.

Applications open!

The LinneSys grant supports small-scale research and education projects in the fields of taxonomy and systematics on any organism group with grants of up to £1,500. Follow the link below!

www.linnean.org/the-... @systassn.bsky.social

Thank you Lord Tony Hall and all the team at the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Nature for the tour last night. Fantastic resource as below. Do visit! @nhm-london.bsky.social www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/ce...