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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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