Category: Biodiversity

The FSC BioLinks team are excited to announce 6 new free virtual talks (with more on the way!).

FSC BioLinks are venturing into the world of e-learning and FSC staff have been welcomed to sign up to sessions!

All FSC staff are welcome to go on any of the FSC BioLinks courses free of charge. FSC BioLinks is a National Lottery Heritage Funded project all about invertebrates.

The winners and runners up of the National Biodiversity Network Awards for Wildlife Recording 2019 were announced at the Albert Hall, Nottingham during an evening ceremony on Wednesday 13th November 2019.

This week a Head Office monthly staff meeting and short East group Education training session focused on the Nature Friendly Schools (NFS) project giving those in attendance the opportunity to take part in a short outdoor session, focused on positive wellbeing outcomes.

The wildflower garden that the West SusCo team created at FSC Start Bay Centre has now fully taken shape. The first flowers have fully burst into life and it is an exciting mix of what was there before, and the seeded annuals provided by the Grow Wild team at Kew Gardens.

The British Ecological Society are running their annual 16-18 Summer School this week at FSC Malham Tarn – As part of the week they will be producing a live broadcast every evening, starting this evening at 6:45.

Staff from FSC Epping Forest and FSC London took part in City Nature Challenge last weekend.

This morning, staff at Head Office opened up the Moth Trap which was put out the evening previous to see what moths they could find. All together, 51 moths were counted belonging to 8 different species which were identified by Charlie Bell, our BioLinks Project Officer.

FSC Centres are invited to submit their Spring Index (and other phenology observations) directly to the Woodland Trust Natures Calendar for 2019.

A hedge at FSC Epping Forest has been improved using the hedgelaying technique used in our FSC Hedglaying courses.

Last night FSC Millport featured on BBC’s Great British Railway Journeys – Glasgow to Cumbrae.

On Monday 11th February Channel 5 news filmed at FSC Epping Forest and spoke to James Bromhead in a feature about how to help prevent the loss of insect life.

Polli:Nation will be hosting an exciting webinar at 4pm on Thursday 7th February to celebrate the outcomes of the Polli:nation project.

FSC Publications have launched a new fold-out chart, ‘Guide to ducks, geese and swans’. From mallard to mute swan, from shoveler to smew, the FSC Ducks, Geese and Swans Identification Chart features all 32 of the wild waterfowl that you are likely to see.

The FSC BioLinks team would like to offer free spaces to any FSC staff that would like to attend a 2019 Training Course.

FSC were delighted to have been awarded a National Lottery grant of £1.23 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the BioLinks project.