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Prince Harry visits Brockholes alderney WT
lancs WT The Prince chats with Herring gulls
marshmallow roasters can live to be
27 or more
Long-range secrets
of Alderney’s gulls
Long-term research by Alderney
Wildlife Trust has revealed the
extraordinary lives of gulls. A lesser
black-backed gull ringed as a chick
was spotted in Castellon, Spain and
later in Switzerland. And a herring
gull ringed in 1991 is still alive at 27.
HRH Prince Harry has been to and participants taking part in alex hyde/naturepl.com
Lancashire Wildlife Trust’s flagship dead-hedging, bushcraft and
nature reserve to support a project mindfulness. Come into my parlour:
encouraging young people to get Sitticus floricola
into the wild. He visited Viking “Prince Harry is on a mission for
Wood at Brockholes to meet staff mental health issues to be de- Spiders endorse
stigimatised,” said Lancashire Living Landscape
Harry sees nature as a valuable aid Wildlife Trust CEO Anne Selby. “The
to good mental health the biggest prize is to normalise A survey in the Cheshire Wildlife
this sort of approach so it becomes Trust’s Delamere Living Landscape
part of the system nationally.” has revealed two rare spiders: the
Sitticus floricola jumping spider
The project, MyPlace, is (found at two sites) and the money
pioneering nature as a holistic spider Glyphesis cottonae (four
therapy, building on research that sites). Both species live on wet moss.
contact with nature improves
mental and physical health. The An example of
dynamic partnership between marine litter art
Lancashire Wildlife Trust and the
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation
Trust is funded by the European
Social Fund and National Lottery.
NI’s marine The raw material is, kodiak high school
litter contest unfortunately, widely available
Children across Northern Ireland ulster wildlife
are turning washed-up plastic into
art. The resulting competition,
organised by Ulster Wildlife and the
Northern Ireland Science Festival, is
raising awareness of the growing
menace of marine plastic, and its
impact on sea life.
Primary and secondary school
pupils collected the rubbish from
their local beach. The winning
pieces were displayed at Bangor
Carnegie Library in February, and at
events around the coast. In June
they’ll be at the Trust’s Living Seas
Art Exhibition in Downpatrick.
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