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This online workshop will teach you the basic biology of ferns, to help you identify some of the key rainforest species in Cumbria.
Ferns can act as indicators of temperate rainforest or oceanic woodland habitat. Some of the species seen in the UK’s temperate rainforests are found nowhere else on earth.
This online training workshop will cover the following topics:
The Rainforest Restoration Project is being led by the Woodland Trust in partnership with Plantlife.
This project is funded by the Government’s Species Survival Fund. The fund was developed by Defra and its Arm’s-Length Bodies. It is being delivered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with Natural England and the Environment Agency.
Join us for an interactive training workshop to how to assess the condition of temperate rainforest habitat!
Join us for this workshop on how to assess the condition of temperate rainforest habitat using the Rapid Rainforest Assessment (RRA).
The RRA has been used to assess the condition of hundreds of temperate rainforests across the UK. The new app gets us thinking on the move and provides an instant summary of management recommendations.
This online workshop covers the following topics:
This project is funded by the Government’s Species Survival Fund. The fund was developed by Defra and its arm’s-length bodies. It is being delivered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with Natural England and the Environment Agency.
Open to all
This free, open to all, online talk will delve into how to support children to find curiosity and connection in nature.
As parents, carers and grandparents we want to help our children and young people to foster a deep connection with the natural world, but we don’t always feel confident doing so. That’s where this workshop can help – it’s a journey back to basics, offering practical insights and playful strategies for stress-free nature exploration.
After taking part you will…
You won’t find complex instagrammable crafts or activities needing loads of prep – just powerful ways to ‘rewild the child’ while making sure the grown ups have fun too!
Hannah is director of Green Squirrel, a South Wales based social enterprise offering a helping hand to anyone who wants to take action for people, place and planet. Hannah has a background in sustainability engagement and outdoor learning, and she’s interested in climate communication and active travel. Having worked in museums, nature reserves, and urban farms she ran her own food and farming education business before joining Green Squirrel after a chance meeting with Becca involving some cake. Hannah spends her spare time messing around with chickens and learning Welsh very, very slowly.
Cass joined Plantlife in 2020, engaging the Bridgend community in green spaces and worked on Magnificent Meadows Cymru. In 2022, she developed the people engagement strategy for the Natur am Byth species recovery program, advocating for collaboration, culture, and community involvement. She now focuses on enhancing people’s connections with nature as Plantlife’s Nature Connections Officer.
We all know the natural world is in trouble and the time for action is now. That’s why on 22 June we are joining tens of thousands of people to unite at the Restore Nature Now march in London and call for urgent action by governments.
Join us at this family-friendly, peaceful march to make a difference. Together with fellow nature and climate charities, we want to celebrate nature and call for all political parties and all governments across the UK to take immediate action to protect and restore our wonderful wildlife.
With more than half of UK plant species in decline and 1 in 6 wildlife species at risk of extinction, our wildlife needs emergency action.
We’re joining environmental campaigners in a united call for future leaders to prioritise nature and biodiversity.
Coming together with dozens of organisations and thousands of people from across the country ahead of the general election, the march will show future politicians that national and global nature restoration needs to be a priority. We need immediate political action to bring endangered plants and fungi back from the brink of extinction and restore species-rich habitats such as grasslands and temperate rainforests.
March with us to show support for these asks:
This general election (4 July 2024) will be crucial to determine if the UK’s nature recovery targets will be met and our future policy-makers need to recognise and act on the unity of concerns that communities, climate and wildlife are currently facing.
Bring the meadow to the march and celebrate our wild plants and fungi by dressing up in any floral, fungal or foliose ensemble you have!
As leaders of the land section, help us create a moving meadow of floral and mushrooms heads to rise above the crowds. Follow along with our own Sarah Shuttleworth to learn how to make a flower or fungi crown – just from things in your recycling box
If you’re coming along or joining in from home, why not make some colourful placards to help us shine a light on the importance of wild plants and fungi.
Tips to make the best placards:
After your flowers or fungi have completed the march, why not pop them in your front window to show your support for nature in the run up to the general election.
And if you’re still feeling creative, why not check out these ideas from our fellow marchers.
We will assemble on Park Lane at 12.00 to be ready to march at 13.00 at the latest. Using the Restore Nature Now interactive map, Plantlife staff and supporters will be gathering at the G19 location, outside Londis, as part of the land section of the march. Please also listen out for Plantlife speakers at 12:25.
We would love for you to join us – look out for our flower and fungi-shaped placards and blue Plantlife tshirts. The rally of speakers in Parliament Square will commence at 14:25 and the event should be finished by 16:30.
For more details please visit here.
This inclusive demonstration will be a colourful spectacle for nature enthusiasts of all ages and all communities to shout, drum and cheer for our wildlife. We will be attending the march and co-leading fellow land–themed organisations.
The march will be fully stewarded, wheelchair accessible and speeches will be BSL interpreted. Arriving via public transport is encouraged, if possible.
Remember to bring water, comfortable clothes and your voices!
And if you’re eager to help on the day, the Restore Nature Now team are recruiting volunteers to help with stewarding and safety (must be over 21).
Sign up to the march on the Restore Nature Now website.
No need to worry, you can still help us shout about the importance of wild plants and fungi from home.
Take part in Plantlife’s National Meadows Day on Saturday 6 July 2024 by visiting your nearby meadows at their midsummer best.
This year we celebrate the value of our local biodiverse grasslands, including meadows.#NationalMeadowsDay
Wildflower meadows look their best in summer, as flowers bloom and seed heads pop under the sun. They are hugely important resources which provide a sanctuary for wildlife, lock up carbon and are vital to our wellbeing.
However, our meadows are in trouble. The majority of our ancient species-rich grasslands have been lost, and now our meadows need us more than ever.
Join Plantlife as we shout out about how important our wild plant-filled meadows are this National Meadows Day.
Here’s just a few ways you can discover your local meadows this National Meadows Day – either out and about or enjoying a virtual experience from your home.
Discover what plants are in your nearby meadows, whether it’s a wild area in your local park or church yard, or even your own lawn! See what you can find on your doorstep by using our helpful ID guide below. Why not also print off one of our spotter sheets, and see how many species you can check off.
Don’t forget to follow the countryside code when visiting green spaces to protect the delicate and rare species that call our meadows home.
Share your favourite meadows and the wild plants that live there with us on social media with #NationalMeadowsDay.
Found a wildflower in a meadow but not sure what it is? Use our ID guide to find out it’s name!
Join Award Winning Garden Designer, Lucy Willcox and our Senior Ecological Advisor, Sarah Shuttleworth on Instagram Live to discuss No Mow May, your lawn and how it can help biodiversity.
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Sarah Shuttleworth is Plantlife’s Senior Ecological Advisor. She is a botanist with over 15 years’ of field surveying experience. She has a passion for teaching wildflower identification and loves to explore the natural world. She’s an active member of two local botany groups and has a developing interest in fungi.
Lucy creates contemporary courtyards to large classic gardens throughout the UK. Increasing biodiversity in her gardens is her a big passion. Lucy has been featured in a Garden Design Series on ‘Alan Titchmarsh’s Gardening Club’ TV show, and in books, multiple magazines and media articles.
Extended dates, now open until Friday 2 February 2024
The exhibition highlights wild plants that are at risk of extinction and explores the relationship between art and nature conservation.
Born out of Lisa Gardner’s time as Plantlife’s first artist in Residence, where she explored the rugged coast of the Highlands to the road verges of Kent, visiting some of the rarest plants in the UK. At the exhibition you can see paintings, film, sketchbooks, and postcards of Lisa’s life-changing magical artistic journey.
Tuesday – Thursday : 9:30 – 18:00Friday: 9:30 – 12:00
Read more about Lisa’s Journey in this blog
On 28 September, join Plantlife as we stand united alongside communities, world-leading experts and charities to ask our elected representatives, current and aspiring, to restore nature now.
Humans have put the planet on a path to a warmer world and now face urgent and interlinked climate and biodiversity crisis.
It is critical that world leaders strengthen not weaken green pledges and display meaningful climate leadership.
Healthy wild plants, fungi & other wildlife species and habitats provide essential solutions to the climate crisis and increasing resilience.
With 2/5 of the world’s wild plants at risk of extinction and only 3% of UK wildflower meadows surviving compared to 100 years ago, Plantlife are calling for ambitious action now.
On 28 September, join Plantlife as we ask our elected representatives, current and aspiring, to restore nature now.
We come together united alongside nature lovers, environmental groups, No Mow May-ers, young people, change-makers and world-leading experts to push for ambitious action for climate and nature.
MEET : Defra Seacole Building, 2 Marsham St, London SW1P 4DF (entrance Great Peter Street)
TIME : 28 September 8am-2pm
NEED TO KNOW : We will be celebrating the wild places and species we love; people, placards, flags, colour, costumes, speeches and music at the place where our united voice needs to be heard.
Learn more about how Plantlife and our partners are calling on the UK Government to prioritise grasslands and commit to developing a Grassland Action Plan for England.
It’s time for real action to make the most of our grasslands.
Join our Plantlife experts on a mock Field Identification Skills Certificate Assessment to help prepare for the real thing.
Join this member talk to find out how these pockets of nature along the edge of our roads can help in the fight for nature recovery.
Join us at The Ucheldre to discover sand dunes through a new exhibition.
In 2023 the Dynamic Dunescapes Project, the Ucheldre and Wild Elements CIC joined forces. The goal? To help Anglesey visitors and residents discover the sand dunes of Rhosneigr, through art. Working together, a programme of activity days has taken place throughout the year, and two films have been produced.
Visit the exhibition to see the works created as well as other arts projects that have taken place as part of the Dynamic Dunescapes project in North Wales.
Opening times:
Monday – Saturday 10:00 – 17:00
Sunday 14:00 – 17:00
All are welcome and you can drop into the exhibit anytime during opening hours, but why not pair your visit with one (or more!) of the following:
For more information about the exhibit please visit https://ucheldre.org/ or contact the Ucheldre
Plantlife‘s work through Dynamic Dunescapes is supporting conservation action in England and Wales to improve the condition of sand dunes.
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