Andy Mather – “The Calderdale Otter Project”: A citizen science project monitoring the local fortunes of one of the UK’s most charismatic mammals. Eurasian otters are apex predators in the freshwater ecosystems of the UK. However, as recently as 50 years ago they were all but extinct in England, with remaining populations confined to the […]
On Thursday 14th March 2024, Louise Bentley from Bolton and Bury Swifts gave a talk ‘Summer Wings – Saving Swifts, Swallows and Martins’. Swifts have lived alongside us for centuries, as our close companions, but like many birds they have declined alarmingly and are now Red Listed. The Swift population in the UK has halved […]
Bee Walking is part of a scheme run by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust which is intended to monitor populations of these important pollinators, several of which seem to be in trouble. Our walks involve a circuit of about a mile in Mandale Park, close to the town centre. To keep results comparable, they take place […]