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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
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Chicks from 60 Arctic tern and 50 little tern nests on one of Cumbria’s most exposed bird nesting sites have survived July’s ferocious and unseasonable storms.
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 |
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Cumbria Wildlife Trust wants organisations across Cumbria to set up a tax-effective giving scheme for employees to give to charity.
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Monday, 28 June 2010 |
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Cumbria Wildlife Trust is reintroducing the rare white-faced darter dragonfly onto Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve, near Witherslack, in south Cumbria. This is the first attempt to reintroduce the white-faced darter dragonfly anywhere in the UK and it is being funded by Natural England.
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Tuesday, 27 April 2010 |
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International Dawn Chorus Day is an annual celebration of the world’s oldest wake-up call – the dawn chorus – and the beauty of bird song.
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Monday, 26 April 2010 |
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A joint exhibition between Cumbria Wildlife Trust and Tullie House Museum has opened in Carlisle to celebrate our county's beautiful wild flowers. This Flower Power exhibition remembers the delights of the county's flower-rich grasslands, looking at the beauty of the flowers and the different places in which they grow, as well as the folklore surrounding them. It also explores some of the insects and birds that depend upon them.
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 |
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Volunteers have created valuable wildlife habitat by forming special woodpiles at Smardale Gill National Nature Reserve, near Kirkby Stephen. Cumbria Wildlife Trust's volunteers made the wood available for these woodpiles while undertaking routine management of the main footpath through this popular nature reserve at Smardale.
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Monday, 22 March 2010 |
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Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s northern members have helped to guarantee the future of a moss near Great Orton, Carlisle by helping to purchase more than 48 acres of land. This mostly impenetrable wet woodland is a former raised mire and adjoins Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s current Orton Moss Nature Reserve, increasing the reserve’s size from a mere 6.5 acres to a substantial 55 acres.
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Friday, 12 February 2010 |
The latest Cumbria Wildlife Trust story recounting Benjamin’s recent adventure and rescue of Norman the Naughty Newt has been launched at an exclusive reading at Muncaster Castle. The Muncaster Owlets Wildlife Watch group waited with anticipation to hear the story read out loud by its author - the group of seven to 11 year olds also had the opportunity to meet the real Benjamin. The Watch group is a junior branch of Cumbria Wildlife Trust.
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Monday, 01 February 2010 |
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Cumbria Wildlife Trust is looking for volunteers from the South Lakes area to help advertise and run an event in June. The Garden Bonanza is the Trust’s family fun day and is on Sunday 13 June. Willing volunteers are being asked to step forward to help distribute leaflets and posters and to set up, man stalls and then pack away on the day.
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Sunday, 10 January 2010 |
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Members of Kendal Kingfishers, the wildlife club for those aged between 7 and 12 years, are going to be making bird boxes at their next meeting on Tuesday 12 January. These bird boxes will then be put up at Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s Enid Maples Nature Reserve, in Kendal, to help encourage the local birds to breed over the coming spring and summer.
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