With everyone doing their bit to encourage wildlife into gardens, it’s only to be expected those managing green space to make the same commitment. The better the links between gardens, green space and the wider countryside the more chance our wildlife has of flourishing.
There’s many doing some great things in our parks and green spaces across the country. Testament of this for example being in the number of partners involved with the London House Sparrow Parks Project I told you about in my last blog. To help green space managers provide the best for wildlife, I’ve just produced some advice sheets specifically for them – a Homes for Wildlife for the industry!
Here’s hoping they help make a difference and we start to see more of those insects from hoverflies to grasshoppers and birds from thrushes to sparrows, all making the most of our parks and gardens. Does anyone have a favourite area of park or green space near them with great areas for wildlife?
Hi Taffy2
Thanks for the compliment, we do try to get them to as many folk as possible, but with such a large varied audience for the built environment it is often difficult to hit all the pigeon holes! We are still expanding our knowledge base of targets and certainly Parish Councils are one to include.
Hello John, a great idea to send info to green space managers. They must 'control' quite a bit of land between them. Would you be able to send leaflets to, eg, all Parish and Town Councils? Quite an undertaking, but many of them, my local one included, don't have any idea of how to go about helping wildlife. They seem to think that as long as the word 'biodiversity' is included somewhere in a planning application, all's well. The true meaning has escaped them!