We started April in the river planting up the new
renaturalised bank by knights Park, and we've ended the month learning to
monitor the state of the Hogsmill and the species in it with a little help from
our riverine friends and the team at ZSL.
Kingston University Biodiversity Action Group
02-03-2014: Hogsmill River transformed into wetland wonderland!
Volunteers turned out in force to see the culmination of our Hogsmill habitat improvement project at our Knights Park campus. Today's task was to plant up the new riverbank areas with marginal plants ready to take advantage of the spring warmth.
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| Iaroslava cradles her little plant bundles of joy! |
15/16/17-03-2014 : Riverbank building gets underway at the Hogsmill
The big weekend finally arrived - and what a three days it was! Blazing summer sunshine, crowds of eager volunteers and heaps of team spirit saw us through our huge task - to build up a riverbank area next to the concrete wall at Knights Park.
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| A happy gang at the Hogsmill work on the new riverbank structure |
26-02-2014 : Dorich delights once again
We had a full class for this year's orchard maintenance afternoon at Dorich House with the London Orchard Project.
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| Lewis McNeil from the London Orchard Project enthuses about the need for healthy soil |
24/25-02-2014 : Volunteers stake-out the River Hogsmill!
The poor weather of late magically (and thankfully!) relented to allow volunteers to enter the Hogsmill River and begin our biggest volunteer project to date - to renaturalise the River Hogsmill at our Knights Park campus.
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| Having a laugh in the River - who said hard work wasn't fun?! |
Be part of the transformation at Knights Park!
Help increase habitat provision and enhance the riverside environment by signing up to help at our biggest biodiversity volunteer project yet!
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Volunteers needed for Hogsmill Riverbank Creation!
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25-01-2014 : Record breaking rhodo bash!
This, our final rhodo bash of the season turned out to be one of the biggest and best yet! An eager group of 31 volunteers from Kingston University, The Environment Trust, Marymount School and the local area put in 110% effort to beat the invasive shrub dominating our woodland.
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| Smiles all round - the rhodo bashing feel good factor is infectious! |
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