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On a cold wet January night, over 60 people came to hear about local farming and wildlife conservation. Both Southern Streams Farmers & Great Green Bedwyn celebrated 5 years in a annual joint evening meeting with homemade cakes enjoyed by all. Three excellent speakers described bird conservation projects, local farming history and recent farming changes. Andrew Blake, a farming journalist brought along his father’s fascinating butterfly collection from the 1940s and Rob Vines

We are planning our next wild orchid hunt in the wilds of Andalucia, but how best to travel there without burning too much fossil fuel and adding to climate change ? Once we drove our campervan 3500 miles to and from Europe’s orchid capital, the Gargano Peninsula in southern Italy – but it was a lot of driving. So, last spring we went to the Cevennes by train from London to Avignon, and it only took a day with minimal CO2 emissions. So, I was delighted to discover we can als

On Oct 23rd, Great Green Bedwyn led a well-attended meeting on behalf of Pewsey Community Area Partnership (PCAP) to understand the link between our wildlife hotspots and water quality in the Pewsey Vale and to share how local communities can plan for and prevent flooding. Wildlife and water quality Maps from the Wiltshire & Swindon Biological Records Centre (WSBRC), use nearly 4 million records to show the distribution of rare species across Wiltshire and how this has change

Pewsey Community Area Partnership (PCAP) and GGB invite you to join our open meeting, supported by the Centre for Sustainable Energy. We will share learning about the causes of flooding and what to do to reduce future risk of: flooding from runoff flash floods from storms overflows from sewers drought & the impact of water abstraction We will finish with some action planning. Please register using shorturl.at/rS2u5 or scan the QR code on the poster, then you will receive