Biodiversity UK

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*"The last time the UK’s wildlife faced a challenge on this scale was at the end of the last ice age. We need to find ways to help our wildlife become more resilient to the trials it faces in the 21st century. We must now work on a landscape scale if we are to give wildlife a chance and allow future generations to enjoy nature as we have." David Attenborough

Contents 1 Introduction needed 2 Action Ideas 3 Diary 2007 3.1 Consultations 4 Resources 5 Random facts 6 Related 7 UK links

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[edit] Action Ideas

• Nature’s Calendar
• Nature trails
• Wildlife corridors
• Wildlife surveys

[edit] Diary 2007

• 30 September - October 8 Red Squirrel Week

[edit] Consultations

• Consultation to help tackle Invasive non-native species in the UK. Launched: Wednesday, February 28 2007. The public consultation will run until 23 May 2007. Further information on the consultation is available on the website of the GB Non-Native Species Secretariat.
• Public consultation on wild boar, September 2 2005

[edit] Resources

• Field Guide to the Bumblebees of Great Britain and Ireland, October 2009 www.ocelli.co.uk
• Hedgerow Handbook, Defra

[edit] Random facts

• Recorders’ observations confirmed last year that ladybirds and butterflies are waking up three weeks earlier compared to 30 years ago, swifts arrive around a week earlier and one species of bumblebee is active now all the year round. The hawthorn, which is also known as the Mayflower and traditionally linked to late spring, is often spotted flowering in March - all as a result of climate change. Source: The Woodland Trust, January 2007

• The UK’s bluebell woodlands represent 20 per cent of bluebells worldwide. Wildlife trusts

[edit] Related

SCA category:Biodiversity Trees, woodland and forest Seasonal UK Growing and gardening Character Area Climate Change Project Natural England	Wikipedia National Nature Reserves in England Centre for Ecology and Hydrology BTCV The Wildlife Trusts	Wikisphere

[edit] UK links

• Nature’s Calendar Woodland Trust site to help see the effects of global warming on Nature’s Calendar
• Bat Conservation Trust
• Landlife
• British Trust for Ornithology
• Environment Agency (Public body)
• Animal Aid
• Wild About Gardens
• Plantlife
• Save our Squirrels, saving the red squirrel
• Buglife
• Biodiversity, Information from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (government)
• Birdtrack
• Flora locale
• Countryside Survey
• Nature on the Map
• Butterfly Conservation
• Pond Conservation, Million Ponds Project coordinated by Pond Conservation

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