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Osprey alert at Kielder
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 10:30 am


Rangers in Kielder Water & Forest Park are scanning the skies for the return of ospreys which last year nested in Northumberland for the first time in at least 200 years. The Kielder Partnership says it’s likely that the iconic birds will return to nest once again in the 62,000 hectare (155,000 acre) Northumberland wilderness, after the pair successfully reared three strapping youngsters on an artificial platform erected for the purpose by the Forestry Commission. The male is [...click on headline to read full story]
Source: euVue – North East Nature Watch | David Pike
Stars in your eyes
Sunday, 15 November 2009, 11:01 pm


Starry, starry night Galloway Forest Park is now officially the first Dark Sky Park in the United Kingdom. And although it’s a hop, skip and jump away from the north east of England we thought you would want to share in the celebrations and have a look at what most people are missing because of light pollution. The prestigious award, announced by the International Dark Sky Association [...click on headline to read full story]
Source: euVue – North East Nature Watch | Newsdesk
The challenges facing bioidiversity
Monday, 2 November 2009, 11:28 am
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The Annual Tom Dunn Lecture, one of the key events in the North East’s wildlife calendar, is to take place in Durham Town Hall in Market Square, on November 10. The guest speaker is Dr Anne Borland, Reader in Molecular Plant Physiology at the School of Biology at Newcastle University and Director of Moorbank Botanic Garden. Her lecture ‘A perfect storm’ takes the theme of the many threats facing biodiversity on a local and global scale and asks if [...click on headline to read full story]
Source: euVue – North East Nature Watch | Newsdesk


