Adrian Ramsey MP for Waveney Valley held a conference in Diss , Norfolk to promote sustainable community initiatives. One of the topics was community nature recovery. The work of 'Our Nature Recovery' was presented. Hopefully we will soon be seeing more groups joining the collective.

Is your garden nature friendly? This short and simple review measures four essential features to help assess how welcoming to wildlife your garden is: food, shelter, water and working together, and also measures whether your garden provides any natural solutions to some of the climate and nature issues we are facing. It takes just a few minutes and you'll get a nature friendly score and you will get ideas for how you can make it even more welcoming. However welcoming your g

This guide explains how to set up a basic community group or unincorporated association. It covers meetings, constitutions, money and rules. The easiest group to set up is called an “unincorporated association”. You need to write a “constitution” or “governing document”. This is a list of rules for the group. It also says what your group’s going to do, and how it’s going to do it. This kind of group: isn’t a charity (although you can set up a charity if you want to. Make sure

South Norfolk Council has endorsed the concept of community based action to address nature recovery. In December 2023, they passed a motion to Encourage communities to identify opportunities for nature recovery and support them to take action through implementing the Harleston community model throughout the District. The motion: https://218529cd-10ba-46b5-9169-7bbec713c1c0.usrfiles.com/ugd/218529_743bfdd4a7834cc78702751515d6d09b.pdf This can be used as the basis for a similar

Amid the global spotlight on the UN biodiversity conference taking place in Colombia, a new short film has been released. It showcases...

The Norfolk and Suffolk Nature Recovery Partnership invite you to join an online webinar to learn about their work on the Norfolk and...

All animals need water to survive. By providing a water source in your garden, you can invite in a whole menagerie! Water is essential for wildlife to thrive, but it isn’t just for drinking. Amphibians like newts, frogs and toads use water as shelter and breeding grounds. Butterflies get valuable minerals and salts from slightly muddy water, and birds use water to bathe and remove parasites. Just about any stand of water in your yard, from a tiny puddle to a pond, will be use

Find out how to attract birds into your garden all year round. Attracting birds to your garden is easy: supplement naturally available food with bird food, and watch them flock in! Remember to keep feeders and tables clean, so the birds stay healthy and disease-free, and position your feeders in a relatively open area away from predators - the birds will feel safer and visit more! Make sure food is available at all times as birds have different needs throughout the year, such

The best plants for bumblebees! Bees are important pollinating insects, but they are under threat. You can help them by planting bumblebee-friendly flowers Bumblebees are vitally important for pollinating hundreds of plant species, including many crops. But they are under threat from the loss and degradation of our habitats due to pressures such as development, agricultural intensification and climate change. Bumblebees look for certain types of flowers. Those with shorter to

Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months. While just about any flower with nectar can be a treat for butterflies, it is a slightly different story for caterpillar food or 'host' plants. In fact, most butterfly species have just a short list of host plants. Often this is because caterpillars need particular chemicals from that plant to bring out their warning colou

Log piles are perfect hiding places for insects, providing a convenient buffet for frog, birds, and hedgehogs too! Putting together a log pile will create a village for all things creepy and crawly. In turn, this busy community will attract birds, hedgehogs and frogs looking to snack on a tasty morsel. Perhaps the most spectacular garden deadwood denizen is the 50 mm-long stag beetle, which is found in light soils south of a line from the Wash to Bristol. Stag beetle larva st

Whether it's a flowerpot, flowerbed, wild patch in your lawn, or entire meadow, planting wildflowers provides vital resources to support a wide range of insects that couldn't survive in urban areas otherwise. It is also a great way of avoiding tools such as lawnmowers that are powered by fossil fuels! Option 1 - Let your grass grow long Long grass, peppered with flowers, is one of the rarest habitats in our well-tended gardens, yet it is incredibly beneficial for wildlife. Pa

Norfolk County Council, along with 47 other local authorities, is working on a Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) as part of a...

This wording may help you draft a motion for your parish council to support nature recovery. This Council notes: The Government published...

South Norfolk Council have started a campaign to promote community driven nature recovery. This is based on the pioneering work of...

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Big Garden Birdwatch is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. Every year, hundreds of thousands of nature lovers take part, helping...

South Norfolk Council reinforced their support for nature recovery in passing a motion: https://democracy.southnorfolkandbroadland.gov.uk...

Light pollution is the human-made alteration of outdoor light levels from those occurring naturally. When we over-light, fail to use timers and sensors, or use the wrong colour of light, we can negatively affect many parts of our world, including migratory birds, pollinators, sea turtles, and mammals, including humans. With much of the Earth’s population living under light-polluted skies, over lighting is an international concern. If you live in an urban or suburban area all