Fully booked! I only just made it to this very popular event
An Evening for Wildlife Gardeners online, with Dave Goulson, Thurs 12th Jan 2023 7.30-9.00PM
Notes from this evening, in a very notish format! I make no apologies.
Steve Head
- started 2005 English Nature
- launched manifesto 2007
- underpinned by strong science
- registered charity 2014
- entirely volunteer run
Dave Goulson
- Set up Bumblee Conservation Trust
- Insects 1.1m species, about 70% of all species
- Could be 3-4m more species
- 22m gardens, 400,000 hectares
- A network of nature reserves
- 8% UK gardens have plastic grass
- Quantifying the attractiveness of garden flowers for pollinators - paper
- 3 natives
- Origanum vulgare
- Echium vulgare
- Centaurea scabiosa
Question What effect will 3.5C have on insect populations?
Answer: speed of change & habitat loss means, inhospitable farmland
No bumblebees any moreAnswer, no more bumblebees in the UK.
- DoPI (The Database of Pollinator Interactions) project by Dave Goulson, documents British pollinator-plant associations. cf DBIF
Rob Jaques
British Trust for Ornithology
Garden Bird Watch
- Looking at effects of extreme weather events on wild bird populations.
- Resources on birds on WLGF website
- Report all diseases to Garden Wildlife Health
Mark Schofield
Mark’s slide on different flavours of grassland
- Dedicated to wild plants & fungi in natural habitats
- Grasslands
- Plantlife - Managing grassland road verges - best practise guide
- Cutting and collecting
- 500,000 ha urban gardens
- If 25% is lawn, 125,000 ha
- Mosaic garden
- scrub mosaic coppice 10-15
- Rough grassland
- meadows.plantlife.org.uk
- Cut 3-4 times per year
- restorative phase late
- meadow cuts
Mark’s slide high to low maintenance zones. Looks a bit like a forest garden!
Links
http://www.wlgf.org/birds_intro.html https://www.gardenwildlifehealth.org/ https://www.bto.org/understanding-birds/birdfacts https://www.sussex.ac.uk/lifesci/ebe/dopi/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10841-019-00177-3