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19/08/2023

19/08/2023

Today on we began to move native wetland species from elsewhere on the site to the channel of our latest slow the flow works. Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Wigan Council, Visit Greenheart.

19/08/2023

🔎 ID challenge!
Have you seen any American minks in the Wigan area? Let us know if you have🔍

Smaller than otters, they have chocolate brown fur with a white chin and throat.

Residing close to water, they are far braver than the secretive otter, and excellent swimmers 🐟
📸 Tom Hibbert

05/04/2023

Today on as part of our continued effort to increase vegetation cover around the recent slow the flow works we began planting what will be over 600 new trees in the area. Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Wigan Council, Visit Greenheart.

23/03/2023

13/03/2023

03/10/2022

03/10/2022

A fantastic day at Amberswood Nature Reserve this morning celebrating the wonderful declaration of the Flashes and Wigan National Nture Reserve. The first post-industrial NNR in Greater Manchester! Please visit some of the sites in the newly declared NNR and enjoy everything they have to offer 🦆🦅🦉🐝🦋🐞

25/09/2022

The Low Hall Nature Reserve car park will be closed on Monday for essential maintenance work.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

19/07/2022

This week is Bees’ Needs Week

This year Bees’ Needs Week (18 – 24 July) makes a call on the public to take five simple actions to help pollinators. Councils are encouraged to share this information locally.

To sustain bee populations, people can:

· Grow more flowers, shrubs and trees
· Let gardens grow wild
· Cut grass less often
· Don’t disturb insect nest and hibernation spots
· Think carefully about whether to use pesticides
Monitoring for insects is also a great way to help scientists understand what pollinator populations look like. The Pollinator Monitoring Scheme is the first scheme in the world to generate data on the abundance of bees, hoverflies and other flower-visiting insects at a national scale. It will provide information that will help measure trends in pollinator populations and target conservation efforts. Everyone can get involved, and takes only 10 minutes observation.

Pollinator Monitoring Scheme:

https://ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts

The UK PoMS recording season for 2022 started on 1 April - read on for how to join in. Flower-Insect Timed Counts Spend ten minutes watching flowers and insects in good weather! This simple survey collects data on the total number of insects that visit a particular flower, ideally chosen from our li...

17/07/2022

Name and dedicate a 3mx3m patch of a land at a brand-new nature reserve and watch it be transformed for wildlife! 🐇🌻

📍 What will you patch be?

https://www.cheshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/3mx3m

22/06/2022

Wow! A visit to Golborne Park this afternoon to check on how the meadow was fantastic and not just because the sun was shining. There were no less than 110 marsh orchids flowering in the meadow along with big patches of birds-foot trefoil, yellow rattle, red and white clover and several species of vetch. Just 2 years ago this was a rough species poor grass field which was cut once a year. Just by changing the timing of the cut and collecting the cut material, and also supplementary seeding with native wildflower species, this field is well on its way to becoming a species rich meadow.

As well as numerous flowering plants, there was an abundance of meadow brown butterflies, a small copper butterfly and a silver y moth all enjoying the meadow.

This work has been carried out under the Naturalising the Borough project with support from Lancashire Wildlife Trust, local councillors and Golborne Voice community group.

Please do visit the site and enjoy nature

23/05/2022

29/03/2022

Another successful day of planting around 200 trees planted. Lancashire Wildlife Trust Visit Greenheart Wigan Council City of Trees