Daniel Greenwood has organised another public Dawn Chorus event at Sydenham Hill Wood for Saturday May 2nd starting at 4.45am. This is part of International Dawn Chorus weekend. To find out more, check out this poster.
More...Daniel Greenwood took part in the EuCAN visit to the Picos de Europa in 2011 and has since visited our partners in the Czech Republic and Hungary. His blog has a lovely piece about the Mutenice fishponds, a wonderful rich site full of birds which the EuCAN groups who visited the Czech Republic between 2008 […]
More...The EuCAN Somerset group have carried out several work days at Barrington Hill National Nature Reserve during the last year, clearing blackthorn thickets, pollarding willows beside the pond, repairing fences and rebuilding a footbridge. Photo: Olly Tuckwell As the site is one of the best places in Somerset to see Green-winged Orchids (Orchis morio) we […]
More...EuCAN volunteers and contractors have been involved for several years in the conservation management of a small area of species rich limestone grassland on the edge of Sherborne in Dorset – and on February 14th 2015 a small group combined with Butterfly Conservation volunteers to help remove invading blackthorn and rank grass from the fields […]
More...Will Parmiter has sent in his latest batch of photos of the Dorset Midweek Volunteers in action – continuing with the dry stone walling on Corton Down near Martinstown and coppicing hazel stools on Hogcliff National Nature Reserve north of Dorchester. You can view them on the EuCAN Flickr site – click here.
More...Some of the 4000 cranes that winter in La Brenne. What a spectacle! Fifteen people took part in the visit to La Brenne in February 2015, working with our French partners on a number of different sites in the Chérine Nature Reserve, cutting blackthorn and tree heather on grazing pastures; ash, sallow and poplar invading the […]
More...The Hungarian Natural Heritage Trust and our lepidopterist friend Safi (Safian Szabolcs) are organising another Butterfly Camp in Kercaszomor next to Orseg National Park in western Hungary. The dates are July 20th – 26th. The butterflies and moths there are fantastic, the food is delicious and the everyone is extremely welcoming! Scarce Large Blue (Maculinea telejus) […]
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