tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65082407966229030522023-11-16T08:02:12.404+00:00Kingston University Biodiversity Action Group - retiredBiodiversity Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18412313192149079908noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508240796622903052.post-53176697273640482682018-05-24T18:16:00.001+01:002018-05-24T18:16:29.115+01:0024-05-2018: We are moving to a new blog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Many thanks for subscribing to our biodiversity blog over the years. </h4>
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Due to the General Data Protection Regulation - EU GDPR coming into effect on the 25th of May 2018. We are starting a new blog, as we don't have view of subscribers details to actively remove subscribers from our list.<br />
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<br />Biodiversity Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18412313192149079908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508240796622903052.post-77535407959364899692018-04-20T09:57:00.002+01:002018-04-20T09:57:38.449+01:0020-04-18: Where, What, Who, Why, When...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #351c75;">We need your help with this exciting project called <b><strike>Not </strike>in my Backyard</b>, by filmmakers Rose and Lizy. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">They are aiming to inspire anyone to make their gardens and communities more inclusive for wildlife. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Continuing reading to find out about the project:</span></div>
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Last Saturday, the Environment Trust's Duke of Edinburgh volunteers helped KUBAG with our site preparation for a tree planting project in November 2018.<br>
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We had a fantastic afternoon at Dorich House with the volunteers on Wednesday. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt;">Hi folks, please find below the details of a project which looks at a different way of communicating the issues faced by species in the natural world. </span></div>
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destruction of animal's natural habitat and support Earth Hour. </span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;">The project will take place over 5 days and require you
to remain in a flat rigged with cameras for that whole time with little to no
contact with the outside world. During your time in the flat we will influence
your environment to highlight key elements that are heavily impacting our
natural world. </span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;">Our aim is not to embarrass or torture you, but to
simple showcase the affect we as humans are having on the world around us. It's
a unique opportunity to help an amazing cause and hopefully inspire people to
do a little more for the planet. To take part you would need to initially send
a self tape talking about why you think you would be good for the project and
what you think you might learn to <b><u><a href="mailto:rosiebox@junglecreations.com" target="_blank">rosiebox@junglecreations.com</a></u></b>.
This project is paid and will film w/c 19th February 2018. </span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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If you live and work near the Hogsmill River, as it winds through Ewell and Kingston, I thought you would be interested in the South East Rivers Trust newsletter this week. It contains important information regarding two recent sewage discharges into the Hogsmill River.<br />
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Link to newsletter and story about the pollution incident: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/8daacebfce05/hogsmill-hit-with-sewage-again?e=650e5faf0d">https://mailchi.mp/8daacebfce05/hogsmill-hit-with-sewage-again?e=650e5faf0d</a><br />
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Thank you,<br />
Until next time.<br />
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<br />Biodiversity Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18412313192149079908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508240796622903052.post-54539889432881260802018-01-25T11:20:00.000+00:002018-01-25T11:20:07.527+00:00Event notification: Spaces still available on our Orchard Afternoon - learn how to maintain fruit trees<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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If you are interested in orchards and maintaining fruit trees, come along to our Orchard Afternoon on Wednesday 7th February 2018 (12.30 to 4 pm).<br />
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We'll be learning how to maintain our fruit trees with the <a href="https://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/" target="_blank">Orchard Project</a>. Focusing on our mulberry tree which needs a bit of TLC.<br />
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Sign up by 3pm on Monday 5th Feb by emailing the following to <a href="mailto:biodiversity@kingston.ac.uk">biodiversity@kingston.ac.uk</a><br />
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<li>Contact mobile number</li>
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We had our last Rhodo bash of the winter on Saturday.<br>
We had another fantastic turnout of Duke of Edinburgh volunteers with the Environment Trust as well as KUBAG volunteers. This meant that we were able to start to clear new areas of Rhododendron which we had never tackled before!<br>
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<a href="http://kubiodiversity.blogspot.com/2018/01/13-01-2018-tackling-invasive.html#more">Read more »</a>Biodiversity Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18412313192149079908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508240796622903052.post-86862475213315018522018-01-09T08:46:00.000+00:002018-01-09T08:46:22.202+00:0009-01-2018: The Events Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://kubiodiversity.blogspot.com/2018/01/09-01-2018-events-edition.html#more">Read more »</a>Biodiversity Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18412313192149079908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508240796622903052.post-46041510286176091762017-12-13T11:07:00.000+00:002017-12-13T11:07:04.637+00:0009-12-2017: Bish Bash Bosh<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had a fantastic turn out for our first rhodo bash of the season with 36 volunteers from the Environment Trust and KUBAG :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">During the last two weeks, KUBAG has been busy at Tolworth Court and Kingston Hill</td></tr>
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Last week was our pond TLC week at Kingston University. </div>
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We had our first Riverfly Monitoring Initiative (RMI) training event on Saturday. It was a great day, with enthusiastic trainees learning how to conduct riverfly monitoring, learning how the monitoring helps us detect acute pollution incidents.<br>
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We had our first biodiversity event of the new term on Saturday. University volunteers were joined by the Environment Trust’s Duke of Edinburgh volunteers to manage two habitats of grassland at Kingston Hill. The first – our acid grassland by the school of Music; the second – an area of established invasive bamboo by the Kingston Hill Pond.<br>
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I hope that everyone’s butterfly counts are going well.<br />
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The children at the KU nursery have been enjoying doing counts every day, having firmly court the counting bug, they have ventured further a field onto the Knights Park terrace to do counts too :)<br />
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The weather during the last few weeks of the count haven’t been the best. If you’ve got time to do another count this week while the weather is warm it would be great to have a backup count before the Big Butterfly Count 2017 finishes on the 6th of August.<br />
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Fingers crossed for clear, warm weather for the majority of this week.<br />
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We’ve had a really busy July so far, and we have some surveys this month where we need your help.<br>
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We need your help to undertake surveys of our dragonfly and butterfly species around Kingston this summer.<br>
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To help get surveyors up to speed, a free Dragonfly identification workshop for Kingston and Hogsmill is being provided by the <a href="http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/dragonfly-detectives" target="_blank">London Wildlife Trust (LWT) as part of their Water for Wildlife project</a>.<br>
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In return for the free training, we are asking people to to commit to monthly surveys. These often take between 11;00 and 15:00 and take place across weekends and workdays.<br>
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There are only 5 spaces left on the course. If you are interested in taking part please email LWT directly on <a href="mailto:wfw@wildlondon.org.uk">wfw@wildlondon.org.uk</a> for more information and to book your place (<a href="http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/events/2017/06/06/dragonfly-identification-workshop-kingston-and-hogsmill?instance=0" target="_blank">event details on LWT website</a>).<br>
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Volunteers ready to greet guests during out first time participating in the <a href="http://www.opensquares.org/" target="_blank">Open Garden Squares Weekend</a>.<br>
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May was a month filled with Balsam bashes...<br>
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We are running a big balsam bash on the Hogsmill over half term.</div>
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Concentrating on two locations on Wednesday the 31st of May.</div>
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Its a free event and anyone can take part, a great event for getting children out and about (they must be accompanied). </div>
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All you need to have a wellington boots/hiking boots, gardening gloves, and long sleeved clothes to minimise stings from stinging nettles. </div>
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We've had a busy and varied time so far this May, starting with making our own mini version of the New Town House for invertebrates!<br>
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