Renowned wildlife author and bee scientist Dave Goulson is giving a free online talk to illustrate how a few changes to your garden can help reverse wildlife declines.
The talk, on Thursday 14th January at 7:30pm, is inspired by Professor Goulson's book The Garden Jungle, or Gardening to Save the Planet.
This event has been organised by Dartmoor-based Moor Meadows, a community wildflower and wildlife conservation group. Open to everyone, the event is free but you must CLICK HERE TO REGISTER PLACES
From beautiful butterflies and dazzling dragonflies to the bumblebees, wasps and hoverflies that pollinate our crops, insects make up over half the species on Earth - yet across the globe they are suffering a catastrophic decline.
In the UK, Professor Goulson suggests insect numbers have more than halved in the last 50 years.
But all is not lost. Event organizer and Moor Meadows co-founder Donna Cox of Buckfastleigh said: "Fortunately, there is something we can do to start reversing the trend. Insect populations can recover. With just a few small changes, our gardens and meadows could become a vast network of nature reserves, where humans and wildlife can thrive together."
The free talk on The Garden Jungle will include a Question and Answer session to highlight the simple ways every gardener can help endangered bees, butterflies and other insects.
Professor Goulson said: "The simplest thing you can do to make your garden more wildlife friendly is stop using pesticides. I also urge gardeners to try to be more relaxed and less tidy-minded; mow the lawn less, don't dead-head flowers at the end of summer, leave a log pile or a pile of brash for wildlife to overwinter in. In wildlife gardening, less is often more."
Members of the Moor Meadows community group are already managing more than 1,000 acres of wildflower-rich meadows to benefit insects and other wildlife. Many of these 'meadows' are in village front gardens and one is even on the roof of a shed in Chagford, so a small space dedicated to wildlife can make a huge difference.
Professor Goulson added: "If wildlife is to thrive, we need to create and restore a network of biodiverse habitats across the country, and gardens can play an important role in helping to link up and provide stepping stones between rich habitats such as wildflower meadows."
Places on the free online talk by Professor Dave Goulson can be registered at HERE
The talk, on Thursday 14th January at 7:30pm, is inspired by Professor Goulson's book The Garden Jungle, or Gardening to Save the Planet.
This event has been organised by Dartmoor-based Moor Meadows, a community wildflower and wildlife conservation group. Open to everyone, the event is free but you must CLICK HERE TO REGISTER PLACES
From beautiful butterflies and dazzling dragonflies to the bumblebees, wasps and hoverflies that pollinate our crops, insects make up over half the species on Earth - yet across the globe they are suffering a catastrophic decline.
In the UK, Professor Goulson suggests insect numbers have more than halved in the last 50 years.
But all is not lost. Event organizer and Moor Meadows co-founder Donna Cox of Buckfastleigh said: "Fortunately, there is something we can do to start reversing the trend. Insect populations can recover. With just a few small changes, our gardens and meadows could become a vast network of nature reserves, where humans and wildlife can thrive together."
The free talk on The Garden Jungle will include a Question and Answer session to highlight the simple ways every gardener can help endangered bees, butterflies and other insects.
Professor Goulson said: "The simplest thing you can do to make your garden more wildlife friendly is stop using pesticides. I also urge gardeners to try to be more relaxed and less tidy-minded; mow the lawn less, don't dead-head flowers at the end of summer, leave a log pile or a pile of brash for wildlife to overwinter in. In wildlife gardening, less is often more."
Members of the Moor Meadows community group are already managing more than 1,000 acres of wildflower-rich meadows to benefit insects and other wildlife. Many of these 'meadows' are in village front gardens and one is even on the roof of a shed in Chagford, so a small space dedicated to wildlife can make a huge difference.
Professor Goulson added: "If wildlife is to thrive, we need to create and restore a network of biodiverse habitats across the country, and gardens can play an important role in helping to link up and provide stepping stones between rich habitats such as wildflower meadows."
Places on the free online talk by Professor Dave Goulson can be registered at HERE
Dave Goulson at Moor Meadows 2017 conference - Photo credit Chris Chapman
Meadow on shed roof in Chagford. Photo credit Nicky Scott
Buff-tailed Bumblebee. Photo credit Andrew Taylor
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'Gardening on the wild side' - Open to everyone, the event is free
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ABOUT
Moor Meadows Dartmoor
Moor Meadows Dartmoor is a community group established in 2015, whose aim is to help each other in conserving, restoring and creating wildflower meadows, on any scale, in the landscape of Dartmoor. Moor Meadows Dartmoor have set up the online Meadow Makers' Forum to help with the formation of new groups across Devon.
More Meadows
More Meadows is an umbrella name for the network of new meadows groups being established in different parts of Devon, all sharing information via the new Meadow Makers' Forum. Establishment of the Forum has been made possible by a grant from the Devon Environment Foundation.
Professor Dave Goulson
Dave Goulson is a Professor of Biology at University of Sussex, who specialises in bumblebees. After completing a PhD on butterfly ecology he became a lecturer at University of Southampton, where he began to specialise in bumblebee ecology and conservation. In 2006 he founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, a charity devoted to reversing bumblebee declines. A Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, he has published over 200 scientific articles on the ecology of bees and other insects and is the author of Bumblebees: their behaviour, ecology and conservation. His popular science books on bumblebees and other insects, and how conservation measures can help them, include A Sting in the Tale, A Buzz in the Meadow and The Garden in the Jungle.
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