Sbp newsletter summer 2012

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Suffolk Biodiversity Partnership Partners’ News Summer 2012

In this issue:

Partners News

Third age volunteers to monitor farmland for wildlife Suffolk Biological Record Centre new website Dedham Vale and Stour Valley Project update More moth recording please! A celebration of Suffolk geology Introducing a new wildlife survey resource Ben McFarland looks back over his first year with the RSPB New and Old Orchards for Suffolk Update on Suffolk Bat Group Water Framework Directive – Partnership projects in Suffolk Suffolk Coast and Heaths update Formation of River Waveney Trust

Suffolk Biodiversity Partnership News Information and news Funding opportunities Local news National news What’s on SBP information

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PARTNERS NEWS Third Age volunteers to monitor farmland for wildlife Suffolk Wildlife Trust

A keen group from the Thurston-based Blackbourne U3A (University of the Third Age) have teamed up with Suffolk Wildlife Trust to monitor wildlife habitat at the Trust’s reserve at Grove Farm – a mixed farm with a range of habitats - grazing marsh, woodland and arable - between Thurston and Norton in central Suffolk. This is the Trust’s first collaborative venture with a U3A group. Grove Farm has a total of 20 ponds many of which have been recently created as wildlife habitat and several have been restored. The group are monitoring the colonisation of the ponds by recording numbers of amphibians such as great crested newt, invertebrates and flora during individual visits to different parts of Grove Farm during a project expected to last about 2 years. U3A member Rob Parker says: “Our group has split into three to monitor arable flora, amphibians and aquatic invertebrates separately and into sub-groups to cover specific ponds and field

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