Saving England's most threatened species from extinction
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16th April 2020
In these tough times it's great to be able to share some positive news for one of our target species. The Marsh Fritillary is one of our rarest butterflies and for many years has been known to breed at just one site in Gloucestershire. This precarious outlook however has recently been given a boost...
Read more3rd December 2019
2019 has been another busy year for Limestone’s Living Legacies so here’s a little look back over some of our highlights from this past year! After trying and failing in 2018 to locate the Rock-rose Pot Beetle at its two known Gloucestershire sites, we finally found it on both sites in 2019. This has...
Read more16th September 2019
One of the things I enjoy most about our Back from the Brink project is its variety. Not just the variety of species that we are working to protect, but also the variety of activities that we get to do in order to achieve these aims. After another busy year it seems like a good...
Read moreOur climate is changing. The overwhelming scientific consensus is that this is largely due to anthropogenic activities and is also largely irreversible. We must clearly do all that we can to reduce our negative impact on our planet’s climate, but we must also prepare for the impacts that we cannot change. The Back from the...
Read more16th April 2019
Legend has it that the Pasqueflower comes into bloom on Good Friday. Now these highly specialised plants and many other calcareous grassland species need our help if they are to rise again each year… Lying against the south-facing hillside with a mellow wind on my face, I’m supported by ninety metres of chalk. In the...
Read more1st February 2019
Since our Back from the Brink project started in summer 2017 there has been a huge amount of work undertaken to achieve our aim of restoring and maintaining a network of limestone grassland sites. To date, practical conservation work led by our Conservation Officer, with the help of numerous volunteers has amounted to an impressive...
Read more21st December 2018
Gin lovers rejoice this Christmas! For Juniper, our native aromatic shrub renowned for giving gin its distinctive fragrance, is showing signs of returning to the English countryside, almost 10 years after urgent conservation work began to bring it back from the brink of disappearing.. Despite being one of the first trees to colonise Britain...
Read more14th September 2018
It’s been a very busy few months for Limestone’s Living Legacies. This first year saw lots of people keen to get involved with workshops, bat nights, surveys and guided walks while others have been getting stuck into practical conservation work. Getting people actively involved with our project is one of our main aims and our...
Read more11th January 2018
It's a cold November evening in the Cotswolds, the base for our Limestone's Living Legacies project, led by Butterfly Conservation. The project are readying themselves for a presentation all about Oil Beetles - with talks from Buglife and John Walters; followed by a trip to two separate locations within the Cotswolds that hold the magnificent...
Read more19th December 2017
We have spent a lot of time in this first six months getting to grips with the project and putting in place plans for the next few years. This has meant lots of meetings and site visits and for me (being completely new to the area), generally getting to know the Cotswolds! As I’m sure...
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