Monthly Archives: January 2018
July 2018 visit to Transylvania
July 15th – 22nd: we are looking for a small team of hardworking wildlife enthusiasts to work with us and the local farming community to cut and bring in the hay crop from the mountain meadows. This will be part of the 10th International Scything and Haymaking Festival run in the eastern area of Transylvania […]
More...Wildlife Holiday to Hungary May 8th – 17th 2018
We are organising another wildlife holiday to Hungary in May which we hope our friends, EuCAN members and their contacts might be interested in. We will be visiting Fertö-Hansag National Park in the west and Aggtelek NP in the northeast of Hungary to explore the fantastic bird, insect and plant life that these areas are renowned for. […]
More...Looking forward to an inspiring and successful year in 2018!
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More...The EuCAN Dorset Mid-week Volunteers – it’s been a busy year!
The EuCAN Dorset Mid-week Volunteers (DMV) go from strength to strength and their calendar gets fuller every season! The regular day for the midweek tasks is (of course) Wednesday but their services have been so much in demand that they are frequently out on Tuesdays and Thursdays, even occasional Fridays. The work has included dry-stone […]
More...Exploratory visit to Serbia
EuCAN Director Gwil Wren and Milverton Group leader Trevor Phelps have recently returned from a visit in October 2017 to Vojvodina Province in Serbia where they were shown some fascinating wildlife sites and the work of the Institute charged with designating them and specifying their management. In particular they were struck by the efforts to deliver […]
More...New programme available for the EuCAN Somerset Volunteers
The January to March 2018 programme of tasks is available here. There are tasks every Tuesday and on an additional Wednesday and several new worksites have been added to our range of activities: we are gradually spreading westwards….. Lifts are always available to our tasks – either in other members’ cars or in the EuCAN […]
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