June and July have been filled with even more Bees, Balsam,
Bats and Butterflies as well as birds slow worms, voles and unidentified plants!
Kingston University Biodiversity Action Group
02-07-14: Balsam, banks and butterfliesStockpiled
A slight delay in reporting on the last balsam bash, but there are a few upcoming events that I wanted to
let everyone know about...read on to find out more.
01-07-2014: Balsam Bashing for the Hogsmill
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Balsam
Bashing Event
Hogsmill River Wednesday 9th and/or Thursday 10th July 2014 |
Balsam Basing on World Environment Day
On the lead up to World Environment Day, Dedicated students fromKingston University joined up to help clear Himalayan balsam Impatiens glandulifera – conducting a balsam bash on the banks of the Hogsmill River.
22-05-2014: International Day for Biological Diversity 2014!
Help celebrate the International Day for Biological
Diversity. The focus for 2014 is Island Biodiversity.
Here are some interesting facts and figures about the importance of island biodiversity:
Headlines:
"One third of the world’s countries are islands"
"Islands constitute less than 5% of the Earth's landmass; yet, islands provide habitat for 20% of all bird, reptile and plant species"
"Islands also harbour more than 50% of the world’s known
marine biodiversity"
"Islands have higher extinction rates then mainland areas due
to the vulnerability of their endemic flora and fauna, combined with intensive
human use of islands"
"64% of all recorded extinctions in the last century happened
on islands"
16-05-2014: Of eels and algae
Wednesday was a day for exploring the river, the lovely
weather had the clouds of insects flying over the Hogsmill and the surrounding bridges
for the majority of the day and students out in force enjoying the weather.
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Joe explains how to wrangle small eels for monitoring
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