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Friends of Chorlton Meadows: Discover Where You Live by Cath Dyson
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows. Sunday, 28 September 2014. Discover Where You Live by Cath Dyson. Using a map and compass…. To put together the walks and cycles in ‘Discover where you live’ in the Community Index over the last few months I have used maps, both paper and online. Ordnance Survey produces the best maps in the world. Fact! And on the iPhone / iPad, download the app Go Map! So what does the map tell us about Chorlton Ees? I have already said there are few rights of way. Rights of way are gre...
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows: September 2013
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows. Thursday, 26 September 2013. Review: Manchester Festival of Nature, Heaton Park, Saturday 7th September 2013. Here, better late than never, is my review of this event earlier in the month. 8221; Unfortunately, I seem to have missed that opportunity (drat! The actual organisers were Manchester City Council in collaboration with Red Rose Forest, Manchester Museum, the University of Manchester, the Environment Agency and Greater Manchester Local Records Centre. There seemed to b...
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Bat links
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BCT is the organisation that co-ordinates the work of all the county bat groups. Well worth visiting for information on bat conservation in the UK, plus general information about bats. Your Local bat group. Bat Conservation International is based in the US, so 'international' tends to be considered synonymous with 'America'! An entertaining page from the US, but with loads of links to sites around the world, including here in the UK. Links to sites with information about Rossendale.
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Forest of Bowland Wildlife Organisations and Groups
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Wildlife in the Forest of Bowland A.O.N.B. This site aims to bring together information about the wildlife of the Forest of Bowland A.O.N.B. Wildlife Organisations and Groups. RSPB Bowland Wader Project. RSPB Birds of prey in Bowland. See also RSPB Hen Harrier Project blog posts. The Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside. Lancashire Branch of Butterfly Conservation. The Hare Conservation and Recording Project. Offers advic...
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows: My Speech to the Recorders' Conference
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows. Monday, 16 June 2014. My Speech to the Recorders' Conference. Back in April of this year, the Greater Manchester Local Records Centre organised a Wildlife Recorders' Conference at Manchester Museum. I was asked to give a speech and you can read it below (well it took me long enough to write it! I want to start by introducing you to a great Mancunian – a person who some of you may, possibly, have never heard of. Century to the middle of the 19. Dave Bishop, April 2014. 2 ̵...
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows: August 2013
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows. Friday, 30 August 2013. Unravelling the Web of Life. Marc Hudson, of Manchester Climate Monthly, has just sent me the following link to a sad and terrifying piece by the Canadian biologist, Neil Dawe:. Http:/ www.oceansidestar.com/news/web-of-life-unravelling-wildlife-biologist-says-1.605499. I've come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as 'progress' any more - just accelerating environmental destruction. Dave Bishop, August 2013. Friends of Chorlton Meadows. The h...
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows: Book Review- 'The Sixth Extinction'
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows. Wednesday, 2 April 2014. Book Review- 'The Sixth Extinction'. Review: ‘The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History’ by Elizabeth Kolbert; Bloomsbury, 2014. Is directly responsible for it. Our current epoch is increasingly being referred to as the “Anthropocene” because our species is now so dominant and has so modified the planet’s surface and atmosphere that the fate of the biosphere is now in our hands. I took away two surprising ideas from this book:. Dave Bishop, March 2014.
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows: October 2013
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows. Tuesday, 22 October 2013. The Fallowfield Loop and 'Greening the Greenways'. The Fallowfield Loop (‘Floop’) is an off-road cycle path, pedestrian and horse riding route from Chorlton-cum-Hardy through Fallowfield and Levenshulme to Gorton and Fairfield in Manchester. It is part of the. Cycle Network of routes and paths developed and built by the cycling charity. He Floop creates a linear. Park and wildlife corridor, linking parks and open spaces. It has an interesting flo...
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows: June 2014
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows. Monday, 16 June 2014. My Speech to the Recorders' Conference. Back in April of this year, the Greater Manchester Local Records Centre organised a Wildlife Recorders' Conference at Manchester Museum. I was asked to give a speech and you can read it below (well it took me long enough to write it! I want to start by introducing you to a great Mancunian – a person who some of you may, possibly, have never heard of. Century to the middle of the 19. Dave Bishop, April 2014. 2 ̵...
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