Island 2000 Group

Read updates from Twitter for 2010-03-07

07/03/10 •

great-spotted woodpeckers are drumming, coltsfoot's out on the cliffs, celandine's are smiling. Oh yes, It's Spring! #
How to Make a Dormouse Smile… http://75wcz.th8.us #

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How to Make a Dormouse Smile…

01/03/10 •

give him/her a nestbox and dinner.
Here you can see the kit we’re currently installing one hundredfold in woodland strips that cross a large development site here on the island. Surveys beforehand indicated a small population of dormice using parts of the hedge and copse network, perhaps an ‘outreach’ from the larger populations know further east. [...]

Save the Whale

01/02/10 •

Ten years ago we installed along the coastal cliff path at Brighstone a superb limestone bench, carved by local artist Danny Stimpson to be a white whale. It was a part of the great Chines project that spawned three such carved Portland stone benches (you may have come across them all on your travels) along [...]

Sandman Snowman 4

25/01/10 •

Our fourth annually celebration of the Island’s lack of snowman-making opportunities took place on Hope Beach, Shanklin on Sunday 24th January. of course this year the event was given the rather marvellous twist of following on from an extraordinary period of real island snow! So amongst the many wonderful sandmensnowmen there were snowmensnowmen and even [...]