The Bourne Conservation Group (BCG) is involved in many activities to help the environment of the area, and some are not always obvious. The Group?s most visible achievement so far in 2017 has been the creation of a new bed full of plants in the Middle Bourne Lane Community Wildlife Garden, which BCG maintains as a haven for wildlife on behalf of the people of Farnham.
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Martin Angel, our Vice-Chairman, reached the final of the prestigious World Wildlife Fund Earth Hour Heroes national competition. He was one of 18 shortlisted entries for the event on Tuesday February 28, in the shadow of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament.
The WWF competition, run in conjunction with People’s Postcode Lottery, invited people to nominate themselves, or others, if their actions are helping to save the planet. There are three categories in the competition – Community Hero, Lifestyle Hero and Workplace Hero – and each is designed to highlight individuals who deserve recognition for going the extra mile to help the environment and inspire others.
Martin was one of six finalists in the Community Hero category, for his outstanding dedication to wildlife conservation over the past ten years in his role as Vice-Chairman of the Bourne Conservation Group. Martin’s highly decorated ecology background and experience from working as an oceanographer have been invaluable to the Farnham area as he’s helped to campaign passionately for local improvements for the benefit of residents and wildlife. Continue reading “Bourne Conservation Group’s Earth Hour Hero”
It has been a busy year for monitoring. I have run the moth trap on 70 nights in the garden catching 4390 moths belonging to 368 species. Several were new records for the area; I was particularly pleased to catch my first vestal, which is a regular migrant species to Britain. Perhaps the most beautiful new species was Alabonia geoffrella – it has no common name. I first caught it by day in the old Churchyard, but a week later it later turned up in the garden. I have now recorded 694 species of moth in and around The Bourne. I trapped on 33 other nights, several associated with events. Continue reading “Wildlife monitoring in 2016 – report by Martin Angel, Vice-Chairman of BCG”
The tenth annual symposium of the Wildlife Gardening Forum (www.wlgf.org) was the first International meeting the Forum had organised. Martin Angel thought it would be a pity not to take this opportunity to advertise our achievements in the Middle Bourne Lane community Wildlife Garden on a bigger stage. Continue reading “Middle Bourne Lane Garden Poster”
The Bourne Conservation Group (BCG) has had a busy and successful summer, which culminated in a visit by a BBC film team to Middle Bourne Lane Community Wildlife Garden on 13th September 2016. This arose directly from its participation in Farnham in Bloom. Continue reading “Group’s busy summer ends with TV filming”
