Monthly Archives: February 2017
Study Tour to the Re-wilding Project in Holland May 3rd – 9th 2 places now available
We have two places available for our visit to Holland in May to explore the Re-wilding Project at Oostvardersplassen and several other places in the area. We will be camping at the t’Oppertje campsite on the edge of Lelystad. All the details are on this link including the joining instructions and programme. Please contact nigel@eucan.org.uk asap if […]
More...EuCAN Milverton Volunteers complete three tasks for Wessex Water at Clatworthy Reservoir.
The EuCAN Milverton Volunteers based in west Somerset have recently completed three successful tasks at Clatworthy – the aims being to open up flight paths for the bats using the newly refurbished ‘bat house’, to clear vegetation round some of the interesting geological faces and to carry out measures to help maintain the valuable lichen […]
More...EuCAN Summer residential weekend, Daneway Banks Gloucestershire
Our 2017 annual get-together is going to be held at The Daneway Inn in Gloucestershire over the weekend of June 30th – July 2nd this year. This is a particularly special place and a special time to be going there as it is a site of the recent successful re-introduction of the Large Blue butterfly […]
More...34 meet for the EuCAN Summer residential weekend at Daneway in Gloucestershire
Our 2017 annual get-together was held at The Daneway Inn in Gloucestershire over the weekend of June 30th – July 2nd this year. It is a very informal (basic) campsite in the grounds of the pub beside the disused Severn-Thames canal, surrounded by woodland and the Daneway Banks and Siccaridge Woods Reserves managed by the Gloucestershire […]
More...Making the connections – joining up the downland habitats in the Cerne Abbas Valley
The Cerne Valley team – click on image to enlarge it February 16th 2017: The EuCAN Cerne Valley Conservation team have spent the last four Thursdays clearing thorn, gorse and bramble in the Cerne Abbas valley to link up several beautiful sections of downland north of the famous Cerne Giant which were previously separated by blocks of […]
More...Summer butterflies, birds, moths and wildflowers in La Brenne
We are organising another summer visit to La Brenne for July 6th – 13th. The wildlife in July will be fabulous – species lists are attached on our Europe page. La Brenne is one of our favourite wildlife sites and only a few hours across the channel! Information and registration forms for this visit are […]
More...Croatia Bird-ringing camp 2016 report
Our friends in Croatia have produced this very interesting report with ringing results for the camp held in Učka in 2016. For information about the 2017 camp see this link.
More...Somerset EuCAN Volunteers open up old chalkpit on Lankham Bottom Butterfly Reserve
Tuesday February 7th 2017, Lankham Bottom Butterfly Reserve: a beautiful almost spring-like day and possibly the earliest recorded date for Marsh Fritillary larvae sunning themselves in a cluster on the southwest facing slopes of the reserve. Clusters of Marsh Fritillary larvae drawn out by the warm sunshine, a very early date to see them. 14 […]
More...Alive in Milverton
TV NATURALIST CHRIS SPERRING CONFIRMS MILVERTON IS ALIVE……………..WITH SPIDERS! On 19th November 20 people of all ages turned out on a squally Saturday morning to join Bristol-based BBC naturalist Chris Sperring for Alive in Milverton’s inaugural event, a Wildlife Walk and Talk around the village. They came from Milverton and its surrounding villages to discover […]
More...Ukraine Oct 2016 Discovering Ukrainian Rural Reality
EuCAN director Gwil Wren attended this workshop in western Ukraine at the beginning of October 2016 and what an eye opener! His comments are here:Gwil reflections The programme for the workshop is here: prog_logisticLifeshop_ukraine2016 new Gwil describes the city of Lviv (formerly Polish Lvov) as ‘ lovely and pretty much untouched since the 1930s’ ‘A highlight […]
More...South London Wildlife Trust events for winter/spring 2017
Daniel Greenwood has had a very successful few years as the Conservation Projects Officer for Sydenham Hill Reserve in south London for the London Wildlife Trust. His summary of last year’s achievements and the programme for the coming months is attached here. London Reserves events programme Winter.Spring 2017 If you live in south London or nearby, do […]
More...The Great wall is finished!
The Great Wall of Corton – from a news piece sent out by the South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership Under the skilled tutelage of the Dorset Branch of the Dry Stone Walling Association and EuCAN, a small army of volunteers has restored a prominent Ridgeway dry stone wall to its former glory. We were able to step in […]
More...Cerne Valley Group now in year 5 of the project
The EuCAN Cerne Valley Community Landscape Project is now in its fifth year, working on the downs along the Cerne Valley to connect up the valuable wildlife habitats which are so characteristic of this area of Dorset. This project has been funded since its inception by the Patsy Wood Trust; it has allowed us to […]
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