Send us your photos!
Submitted by Steve on Thu, 29/05/2014 - 17:49
We want to see your pictures of the Churnet Valley and surrounding areas.
We want to see your pictures of the Churnet Valley and surrounding areas.
The Barn Owl Boxes that the CVLLP community grants scheme recently funded will be featured on BBC Midlands Today as part of their Springwatch feature on Friday 30th May.
Have you ever heard or seen a bird in Borough Park or the adjacent Brough Park Fields Nature Reserve and wondered what it was? Here is your chance to find out.
A leading wildlife group is celebrating after reaching a major milestone in the number of nest boxes installed across the county. Staffordshire Barn Owl Action Group (BOAG), who are based at Staffordshire Wildlife Trust's HQ near Rugeley, have installed their 400th nest box box at a site in Ipstones near Leek funded by the Churnet Valley Community Grants Scheme.
The latest Churnet Valley Wildlife newsletter has now been published, download a copy here (PDF format, 578Kb).
Local people are being given the opportunity to view exciting plans to develop new cycle paths linking Staffordshire with the Peak District national park along one of the our historic waterways. The project will see the creation of four new cycle ways directly into the national park from the surrounding urban areas and is expected to benefit around 3.5 million people.
There are some notable bird species visiting Brough Park (Leek) at present. If you are relatively new to birding and/or want to see some relatively uncommon bird species at an accessible site it is worth going to the Brough Park Fields Nature Reserve.
How many bird and animal species can you see on foot from your home in January? The Churnet Valley Living Landscape Partnership's “Wildlife From Your Doorstep” project is challenging people who live in and around the Churnet Valley and Weaver Hills area to spot as many species of bird, mammal (not farm or domestic animals) by walking from their own house or place of work during the month of January 2014.
On the first Wednesday in November, ten of the Practical Projects Volunteers from the Churnet Valley Living Landscape Partnership joined forces with members of the Alton Towers Gardens and Woodland Team to help clear the Millrace in Alton. The removal of some trees, brash and litter exposed the previously hidden stone structure which in days gone by formed the Millrace- the channel which conducted the water to the old mill’s water wheel.
The Churnet Valley Living Landscape Partnership is a project to protect, enhance and celebrate the heritage of this special place.