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Podcast: Importance of bees

admin@naturearoundme.com (Naturearoundme.com) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:21:30 +0000

Bees are found all around the world except in areas of extreme cold such as the Poles. Bees are important to the natural ecosystem as they are responsible for polinating flowering plants. Recent changes in farming and the loss of many flower filled gardens are having a dramatic effect on bee numbers. It is thought that almost one [...]

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Garden birds face food shortage – RSPB

admin@naturearoundme.com (Naturearoundme.com) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:42:42 +0000

The unusually dry September experienced in many parts of the country may be causing trouble for our garden birds this winter, according to the RSPB. The dry weather has produced a bumper crop of berries, providing one great food source for garden birds. But the accompanying parched, hard earth has forced worms and other grubs deep [...]

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Friends of the Three Peaks go online

admin@naturearoundme.com (Naturearoundme.com) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:45:10 +0000

Lovers of the Yorkshire Dales now have the chance to help preserve its famous Three Peaks online. In August, Calendar Girl Angela Baker became the first person to join a new group formed by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) to support and raise money towards the maintenance of the footpath network around Whernside, Pen-y-ghent [...]

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Yorkshire Dales web volunteers wanted

admin@naturearoundme.com (Naturearoundme.com) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:24:09 +0000

More volunteers are needed to help the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) to improve the online services it provides to the public. So far, nearly 20 people have signed up to become members of a focus group that casts a critical eye over the Authority’s website at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk. Stuart Willis, the YDNPA’s Web Officer, said the [...]

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Yorkshire Dales mountain weather service

admin@naturearoundme.com (Naturearoundme.com) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:44:39 +0000

A new mountain area weather forecast for the Yorkshire Dales will provide hill walkers with clearer information to help keep them safer, whilst making the most of the spectacular countryside. For the first time Met Office forecasts will be provided for the Yorkshire Dales National Park in addition to comprehensive forecasts already provided for the Brecon [...]

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Sedbergh school pupils learn about conservation

admin@naturearoundme.com (Naturearoundme.com) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:26:58 +0000

Pupils at Settlebeck High School in Sedbergh have been working hard to learn more about conservation – with a little help from the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA). They now have their own outdoor learning area in the grounds after Becky Barnes, a student now in Year 10, received a grant for a project that [...]

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Skyline used at Whinlatter Forest

admin@naturearoundme.com (Naturearoundme.com) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:09:09 +0000

A brand new arrival is giving foresters a very big lift on the Forestry Commission estate at Whinlatter Forest in north Cumbria. It’s a Skyline cable crane which is being used to clear an area of woodland at Hobcarton as part of the Forestry Commission’s work to improve the country’s Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). The [...]

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Join the autumn gold rush in Cumbria

admin@naturearoundme.com (Naturearoundme.com) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:22:41 +0000

Visitors are being given a helping hand to root out the very best of Cumbria’s vibrant autumn leaves thanks to an online guide launched by the Forestry Commission. The website – www.forestry.gov.uk/nweautumn – will record the changing colours of the leaves so people can visit the woodlands in all their blazing glory. A team of woodland experts [...]

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Autumnwatch

admin@naturearoundme.com (Naturearoundme.com) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:59:16 +0000

With the autumn season well under way, join the BBC Autumnwatch team, as they take a closer look at the nature around us. Kate Humble, Chris Packham, Simon King and Gordon Buchanan travel around Britain in a new look programme spanning eight weeks on BBC2. View Gordon’s high seas video diary, as he goes to film in [...]

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The Great Nut Hunt

admin@naturearoundme.com (Naturearoundme.com) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:47:27 +0000

The third Great Nut Hunt, recording Dormice in the British Isles, is to be launched by The People’s Trust for Endangered Species and Natural England. Hazel nuts are a favourite food of the dormouse and can be found growing in our old hedgerows and woodland. As a Dormouse gnaws through into the green hazel nuts, they leave [...]

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