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: Mine Waste Cronton SJ471891
MINE WASTE LWS, CRONTON. KNOWSLEY. SJ471891 (Sat Nav. WA8 5QN) Sat 11 June 2016. Leader: Dave Earl Weather: 17°C. Mostly cloudy, scattered showers with a warm high of 21° Data from Foreca . . Behind the locked gates of Cronton Colliery you encounter a 43 hectare derelict landscape since the closure of...
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...
Hugh Harris: PICKERINGS PASTURE LNR AND MERSEY BASIN SJ 487835 – HALEBANK, WIDNES
The reserve is a broad area of peaceful pasture alongside the banks of the River Mersey with wild flowers, wildlife and scenic views of industrialisation on the opposite shoreline, including the chemical plant at Weston Point, the oil refinery at Stanlow and the Manchester Ship Canal. The Silver Jubilee and Stephenson railway bridges are also...