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Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 14:15
By: OutdoorLearning
Ben Siggery, an Outdoor Learning Officer at Nower Wood talks about the exciting new GIS programme for Year 5 to A Level students.
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Posted: Friday, February 9, 2018 - 16:03
By: OutdoorLearning
Our Forest School training programmes have helped over 300 people become Forest School Leaders and Assistants, including experienced members of our own team.
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Posted: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 - 11:00
By: Nature Notes
As with many Christmas traditions, kissing under the mistletoe comes from Victorian times, when a boy could win a kiss from a girl for each mistletoe berry he picked.
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Posted: Friday, December 15, 2017 - 16:09
By: Nature Notes
From wreaths and garlands to cards and carols, no plant evokes Christmas quite like holly.
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Posted: Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 11:29
By: RiverSearch
If you go for a walk in the woods close to a stream in Spring there is a chance you will come across some mighty Yellow flowers growing up in a spike and giving off a strong odour like a skunk. This is the non native skunk cabbage which loves our wet woodlands.
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Posted: Friday, July 21, 2017 - 13:54
By: RiverSearch
The demon shrimp (Dikerogammarus haemobaphes), is an eastern European invader about the size of your small fingernail which is beginning to colonize the rivers and slow flowing water bodies of the UK. Native to the Caspian Sea region. the shrimp has made its way across Europe’s canal network, arriving in the UK back in 2012
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Posted: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 15:45
By: RiverSearch
Growing to a height of 3.5m, Giant Hogweed dwarfs most other invasive plant species and can cover whole fields once established. It is particularly dangerous to people, with children being the most vulnerable.
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Posted: Monday, July 17, 2017 - 12:59
By: RiverSearch
American mink (Neovision vision) are a member of the Mustelid family (the weasel, badger and otter family). Mink are often mistaken for otters, but are in fact much smaller. Only a juvenile otter would be comparable to the size of a mink. Mink fur is dark brown and they have a distinctive white chin and lower jaw.
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Posted: Friday, July 14, 2017 - 10:42
By: RiverSearch
One of the hardest to eradicate of the invasive species, Japanese knotweed is a huge headache for councils, homeowners and conservationists.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 - 10:49
By: RiverSearch
A tasty treat turned into a natural nightmare. The American signal crayfish is now widespread across the UK and causing damage to our native wetland species.
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