BTCV : CVNI : Tree Campaign

The treeplanting season has come to a close and Conservation Volunteers have been particularly busy this year. The Northern Ireland Tree Campaign has planted thousands of trees in schools and with community groups through its Free Tree scheme - see a few of the stories here.

Spring into Action is just around the corner, with events across Northern Ireland to help animals, plants and habitats! There will be a special event at Cave Hill Country Park on 2 May to celebrate the completion of the path restoration with refreshments in the zoo afterwards. For more information contact Helen Tomb.

White Young Green gets muddy
White Young Green, the engineering, environmental, surveying, planning and project management consultancy, joined forces with us in March to plant trees in St. Peter's High School in L'Derry and at Cave Hill in Belfast.
Read this story

L'Derry and Gransha Wood gets new nest boxes
On Friday 22 February about 150 children and teachers from 10 local schools in the L'Derry area braved the weather conditions and arrived at Gransha Wood for a day filled with environmental activities.
Find out what they did

ECO-UNESCO Award
The efforts and hard work of St. Joseph's Boys' School have been recognised with the ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist of the Year Award. Find out what they and Conservation Volunteers have been up to.
Find out more

Self-heal - Prunella vulgaris
A very common plant throughout Northern Ireland, abundant in pastures and lawns, on roadsides and waste ground. The common name "self-heal" comes from its use to treat a range of minor disorders.
Go to the Wildflower Nursery website - Read this article

Planet Earth Under Threat
The seventh of eight programmes in the BBC's Planet Earth Under Threat series is called "Conservation" and notes how the effects of climate change don't act alone: habitat destruction, loss of biodiversity and the introduction of alien species.... and the impacts of climate change, all need to be considered together. You'll need RealPlayer to listen to this.
Listen to this programme

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