14-03-12 : Orchard afternoon

On this sunny March afternoon, The London Orchard Project returned for a visit to our Dorich House orchard, to help us to give all of the trees a Spring haircut!

18-02-12 : Nature trail maintenance

We spent a day in the woodland again, but this time doing a little maintenance work to our nature trail!

ZSL European Eel monitoring project 2011 - Guest Post by Chris Ovington

I am sure by now all of you have been pestered by a member of the ‘Save the Tiger’ charity team. The main point they use to draw you in is the fact that the tiger species has declined by 95% since the turn on the century and are close to extinction. But what about a lesser known species which is in just as much trouble? Is it not time that someone helped to try and save the iconic European Eel (Anguilla anguilla)? Well that’s just what we at Kingston University have been doing...

The 2011 eel trap volunteers

08-02-12 : Hogsmill River litter pick

Plenty of enthusiastic volunteers came out for the river litter pick, despite the weather being very chilly!

07-01-12 : Kingston Hill woodland management

It was a bright and breezy new years day when we undertook some more woodland management at our Kingston Hill campus...

10-12-11 : Kingston Hill Pond Conservation

We are lucky to have a great range of habitats at our Kingston Hill campus, and the one that most of the KU regular conservation volunteers will be familiar with is the pond.

Unbelievably, the pond has never had a blog post dedicated to it, and so here is a little history of our pond conservation project...

28-11-11 : Project xmas tree!

The official Kingston University Christmas trees are even more green this year...