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Tell us why nature matters to you trevor ray hart

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hundreds of people across the UK – and #MyWildLife
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Its purpose: to spread the message that our top ten
nature matters.
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We want to hear what nature means to
you, so that we can share your stories
with the world. Visit mywildlife.org.uk
and add your voice to those already
there. From the wild peat bogs soaking
up carbon, to the green places in our
cities that give people a chance to fall in
love with nature – we want to show what
nature means to people.

“Nature matters. We are part of it and
depend on it for everything including our
happiness,” says Stephanie Hilborne, The
Wildlife Trusts CEO. “This campaign is
about people and wild places that matter
to them. We want everyone to experience
the natural world”.

My City Break: without leaving
London, Kathryn can go from
skyscrapers to the tranquillity of
Camley Street Natural Park.

Eycott Hill: beautiful now, even cumbria WT Rare upland saved
better in the future, thanks to in Cumbria
Cumbria Wildlife Trust.
A spectacular 216ha upland between
Keswick and Penrith will be restored for
wildlife and opened to visitors, thanks to
a £1.6m Heritage Lottery Fund grant.

Eycott Hill is unusual for its extensive
mire system, which supports rare plants
and many species of bird. Historic
management has, however, removed
much of the wildlife from the remainder
of the site. The Trust will bring back a
mosaic of grasslands, woodland, scrub
and heath through practical restoration,
natural regeneration and managed
grazing. More on wtru.st/eycotthill

Around the Wildlife Trusts

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New feeders and bags Dorcatoma substriata, Kilnhurst Ings will be A Scots pine at Loch David Wright MP Work has started to
of squirrel mix have a beetle with transformed into a of the Lowes reserve, played Pooh Sticks on repair eroded
helped red squirrels antennae that look flood defence area, used by the famous the Mad Brook in footpaths at The
survive winter at the like reindeer antlers, recreational space osprey ‘Lady’, was Stirchley to celebrate Roaches thanks to a
Trust’s Hauxley has been identified and wildlife haven, named Scottish Tree the Trust’s restoration £30,000 grant from
reserve, thanks to at Cwm Byddog thanks to Grants from of the Year. It has now work on the Telford The European
players of People’s reserve. It is the first WREN’s Biodiversity been entered for River which has seen Outdoor
Postcode Lottery. record for Action Fund and the European Tree of the the return of frogs Conservation
wtru.st/ Radnorshire. http:// EA. wtru.st/ Year 2015. wtru.st/ and sticklebacks. Association. wtru.st/
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