New guide calls on landowners, developers and volunteers to protect vanishing wildlife havens “Without Local Wildlife Sites we’d have virtually no wildlife” The Wildlife Trusts have published a new guide which highlights the vital importance of Local Wildlife Sites across the UK. Crucial but poorly understood and under-valued, these places are havens for some of...
Hugh Harris: Lichens workshop session notes
Tuesday 28th June 2016. Led by James Hill, University of Liverpool. What are they? How do I identify them? Why should I care? My first encounter with lichens was on old walls and gravestones in a local church yard. These unusual organisms consist of a symbiotic association between a fungus and an alga, with...
Hugh Harris: The Big Bug Hunt and Coastal BioBlitz
‘Every kid has a bug period … I never grew out of mine’ E.O. Wilson zoologist SPEKE-GARSTON COASTAL RESERVE, 13-14 May 2016. SJ450820 to SJ403832 The saltmarshes, sand and mud-flats along the northern fringes of the Mersey estuary form a Local Wildlife Site of 1727 hectares and possess a strange beauty all of its own...
Hugh Harris: Carr Lane Lake, Prescot (SJ460921)
Biodiverse Society Site Visit 19th May 2016: Carr Lane Lake is a modestly sized Local Wildlife Site near Prescot, Knowsley of 1.02 hectares. It is a wetland with a large area of open water which is unusual in Knowsley and it is fished. The site was cited as an LWS in 1995 for a diversity...