Young people help to create wildflower areas in North Lanarkshire parks
Local authorities are becoming much more savvy managing their parks and greenspaces. This post in Scottish pollinators A shift in emphasis (26 January 2023) describes how North Lanarkshire Council has created a series of trial wildflower areas within high profile public parks. Another smart Lanarkshire move has been to encourage the [...]
Everyone’s a winner
This post in Scottish Pollinators (19 January 2023) reports on Keep Scotland Beautiful’s Its Your Neighbourhood’winning projects, where communities are supporting biodiversity and engaging and educating local people. Yorkhill Greenspaces in Glasgow retained their Pollinator Friendly prize. Calling on the support of more than 100 volunteers, and 90 pupils from [...]
Rewild Your World – Save Our Pollinators #rewildyourworld
The John Muir Trust’s latest Wild Inside e-newsletter (issue 54) has shared this lovely animation from Fire Lily Studio, to inspire you to get wildflowers growing in your world. Keep in touch with regular John Muir Trust news updates by signing up for our monthly eNewsletter.
B-lines in Scotland
Buglife share information on “Strathmore B-Lines - People & Pollinators in Strathmore”. This is an exciting new Buglife project which aims to restore 20 hectares of grassland and nectar rich habitats, at 20 sites between Dunkeld and Montrose. This webpage includes an ‘Introduction to pollinators’ video. If you are a [...]
Managing Edinburgh’s greenspaces for pollinators
This blog post on Scottish Pollinators (4 October 2022) shares information about managing spaces for our pollinators and Edinburgh Living Landscape. If you are a school in Edinburgh, is there a greenspace like this near you?
People making Glasgow greener
This post on Scottish pollinators (12 August 2022) describes how the neat and tidy philosophy of greenspace management in Glasgow is wilting fast. Find out how this is benefitting wildlife and people.
International Biodiversity Lesson Plan Competition winners
Check out these lesson plans which provide teachers with activities to engage young people in biodiversity conservation actions. As part of the GAIA 20:30 Biodiversity Campaign, teachers from all over the world were invited to develop, test, and submit Biodiversity Lesson Plans with a focus on: Promoting sustainable management of [...]
A sloppy but efficient pollinator
This blog post on Scottish Pollinators (10 June 2022) compares the pollinating ability of honey bees versus other bee species.
