wildlife

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Cold Weather Brings Siberian Bird to London

Among the many complaints that January seems to usher in is that of cold weather. Yet the sub-zero temperatures are good news for one creature, the Siberian chiffchaff, which has been spotted at London Wildlife Trust’s East Reservoir Community Garden in Stoke Newington, Hackney. Approximately …

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Weed The Wandle

The River Wandle wends its way north from Croydon and Carshalton to join the Thames at Wandsworth. It’s a chalkstream that was hardworking in Victorian times, a sewer in the 60s and has recently been suffocating in pennywort weed. A clean up operation is on …

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Help The Homeless… Wildlife

If you were inspired by myfolia.com and their industriously, ingenious, green fingered community or picked up Boris’ 2012 vegetable plots gauntlet then pat yourself on the back – you’re one of over 25,000 gardeners who’ve helped give homes to wildlife this year. Growing plants in …

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Nature-ist: King Henry’s Walk Garden

A thriving, award-winning, organic community garden and peaceful green space.

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Last Chance To See: Endangered Wildlife Exposed

We’re not going to lie: It was the panda and its gratuitous cuteness that drew us in. The curators of Endangered Wildlife Exposed were no doubt banking on that reaction when choosing an image to promote the Roger Hooper exhibit at Oxo Gallery. With their …

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The Sparrow is Dead. Long Live The Sparrow!

In 2002, the BBC pronounced the Cockney Sparrow dead. A year later, they were asking where it was. Sparrow news went cold for a bit, then bounced back in 2006 with the London House Sparrow Project and efforts to find out why the London sparrow …

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Touch Up London #74: Battersea Santa

Alain Robert isn’t the only one scaling London’s buildings. Poor old Santa’s having a hard time of it in Battersea. Does he just use one chimney, or should he scale all four? And do the resident Cybermen deserve Christmas presents anyway? We’ll be featuring a …