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A future for nature?

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July 21, 2014

Ecology

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Thursday 4th December 2025 - The coldness held off which could not be said for the constant drizzle from arrived in force from midday.

Managing to cover two site's on todays outing, a full strength team spent the first half of the day at Caraway Place where a light dredging to the pond got underway, a number of half fallen trees and stumps got felled and the usual tree tangling Bramble and patches of Nettles got pulled.

The final couple of hours of work had the team move to The Spinney where, although unphotographed, the team pushed their way along the central pathway clearing a tangled lattice of Bramble and brashing up a number of smaller trees that had come down since their last visit.
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Tuesday 2nd December 2025 - Thankfully yesterdays miserable rain was nowhere in sight (apart from a couple of drizzly splashes later on!) as the team prepared to enter one of their messiest wetland sites, Kimpton Balancing Pond.

Fielding a fairly large and able team a number of preliminary tasks got carried out before the waders were pulled on.

Two of the team started out by walking the length of the site amassing the strewn litter to be found out in the open and hidden under the surrounding shrubbery, brushcutting was carried out to the edge of the pond to ease the extraction to come later and the final batch of the team divided up to thin out the scrub islands and pathside hedgeline trees.

With all the above attended to the final job was to enter the waters and to clear a channel through the Typha, including all their submerged and silt laden runners, and then wheel barrow after barrow of the claggy muck to the compost heap.
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Sutton Nature Conservation Volunteers6 days ago
From Kew (Grow Wild) the origins of the names of our trees
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What's in the name of a tree?
There are over 73,000 known tree species on the planet but only just over 100 native trees and shrubs in the UK and Ireland. Trees were around long before language, so it's no surprise that our native trees hold ancient stories, as do their names...  The word ‘tree’ itself is considered to be o...
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Thursday 27th November 2025 - Working locations were changed on the fly as Anton Crescent Wetland was substituted with London Road Edge for the large team.

Having not had a long serious visit for a couple of years by the volunteers, the main thrust of this visit was to open up the central walkway of the site, pushing back Bramble by a good meter or two on both sides and thinning out a number of smaller dead and self-seeded trees where needed.

A trip to London Road Edge would not be complete without a thorough litter pick and todays escapade was no different, the team filled half a dozen rubbish sacks with cans and bottles and extricated a number of larger fly-tipped pieces for good measure.
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Tuesday 25th November 2025 - The period of concentrated work on the rotas assortment of wetland sites began today with a visit to Carew Manor Wetlands.

With a near full team of regulars out for the task there was plenty to keep the squad occupied especially on the island of the site.

Fallen trees and low hanging Willow boughs took the greater amount of the teams time allowing the brushcutter to carry out a unhindered clear to the islands grassland. The tree clearing also opened up the crossing of the island for easy traversal for the first time since the late Summer.

The last work of the day occurred in the stream and saw the gentle removal of leaf debris and dead Reeds to keep the flow open for another year and another bank spanning fallen tree being cut up from the near deepest part of the water way!
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