CJS Professional: June edition.
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Contents:
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Title, Employer, Location:, Basis: (contract
details if known)
Senior Ecologist / Experienced Bat Ecologist,
Darwin Ecology Ltd. Farnham, Surrey
Communication and Engagement Officer, Hart
District Council. Fleet in Hart District (NE Hampshire)(Four year fixed-time
position, 37.5 hpw)
Ecologist, Hart District Council. Based in
Fleet, NE Hampshire (flexible working considered) (37.5 hpw)
Nature Partnership Manager, Greater
Lincolnshire Nature Partnership (hosted by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust). Based
in Horncastle, Lincolnshire
Water & Habitats Specialist Officer (Tame Valley
Wetlands), Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. Hams Hall
Environment Studies Centre, Coleshill, B46 1GA (Fixed term, full time)
Trainee Ranger, Hart District Council. Fleet
in Hart District (NE Hampshire) (18-month fixed term position 37.5hpw)
Nature Volunteers website
helps to help link people interested in volunteering in nature with projects
being offered by organisations. The website has two aims - to give people better
access to volunteer opportunities in the UK and to help organisations find
volunteers to enhance the success of their projects. [more]
Four new surveys added
during May.
Read the articles from our
Featured Charity, the Mammal Society, from National Biodiversity Network and also Royal Entomoligcal Scoeity for Insect Week for more on
surveys and citizen science.
The fourth article
from our featured charity: The Mammal Society writing on a very topical
subject.
Lockdown life…Mammal
Society-style
Since we wrote our last blog
for CJS back in March it would be safe to say that life has changed for
everyone. Our small team have been working from home since lockdown started and
any research/surveys that couldn’t be undertaken during daily exercise ground to
a halt. Whilst signs and sightings of mammals could always be recorded using the
very portable Mammal Mapper app, anything more complex or off the beaten track
had to be put on hold.*
So, what have we been up to
for the last few months? Below is a snapshot of some of the activities keeping
our somewhat outdoorsy team busy at home. [more]
People need
Parks written by Chris Worman MBE Parks Practitioner member of the
Parks Action Group, rugby Borough Council.
“People need Parks” were the
words of the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government at
the Downing Street daily coronavirus briefing. Never before have our nation’s,
indeed the world’s, parks been in such focus. [more]
Outdoor Activity
ideas for parents and children
Forest School leader Jen
Stephenson offers suggestions to help with home schooling, she says: "When
home-educating our children, we can really hone in to what excites our children,
tailoring the activities to suit each child." [more]
A bright and
shifting future for the UK’s sand dunes by Emma Brisdion
Many of us know and love
sand dunes as beautiful coastal landscapes; idyllic backdrops to days spent on
the beach or the perfect natural ridges between which to enjoy a sheltered
picnic. But dunes are also important biodiversity hotspots. They are a sanctuary
for rare species which are perfectly adapted to live in their shifting sands,
like the northern dune tiger beetle, natterjack toad, sand lizard and fen
orchid. [more]The National Trust: 125 years of nature,
beauty and history
2020 is the 125th
anniversary of the National Trust, the biggest conservation charity in Europe.
Founded in 1895 to care for
historic properties, areas of beautiful countryside and to provide access to
green spaces for everyone, the Trust now cares for over 500 places of national
significance, including houses, gardens and monuments, and 780 miles of
coastline. Never more so has nature been needed than during this time of
global crisis brought on by the coronavirus. [more]
Make cycling part of
the new norma6-14 June is BikeWeek. Every year, Cycling UK, the
national cycling charity, organises a week-long celebration of all things bike.
This time round, like so many other parts of our lives, Bike Week has had to
adapt to the reality of life under lockdown. The usual programme of group rides,
conferences and meet-ups has been cancelled, and instead the event has gone
virtual. [more]
Make time for nature
– find your forest moment urge Forestry England
To care for ourselves we
must care for nature. World Environment Day, on 5 June, urges us all to make
time for nature. Wellbeing Project Manager at Forestry England, Ellen Devine,
reflects on our time in nature during lockdown and invites us all to find our
‘forest moment’ over the coming weeks and months. [more]
Our work with Sky
Ocean Rescue and plans for the future
Alec Taylor, Head of Marine
Policy at WWF explains more and outlines their plans and hopes. [more]
Six-legged careers:
working with insects
Do you know how many
different insects we have in the United Kingdom? Just over 24,000 species have
been recorded and the Royal Entomological Society will celebrate ‘the little
things that run the world’ during National Insect Week #NIW2020 from 22nd to
28th June 2020. [more]
The National
Biodiversity Network Trust – sharing wildlife data for 20 years
The National Biodiversity
Network (NBN) is the UK’s largest partnership for nature and this year, the NBN
Trust, the charity that facilitates the work of the Network, celebrates its 20th
anniversary. As at May 2020 the NBN Trust had over 200 members (including CJS). [more]
National Picnic
Week: 22-28 June
Picnics are this Summer’s
Antidote to Lockdown Living. We’ve been shut indoors for too long; something as
simple as a picnic could be the first step towards bringing us back together.
[more]
.
The most recent edition:
Environmental Education and Outdoor Activities view the most recent edition here or download a pdf
copy.
The next edition will be
published on 12 November looking at: Ecology and Biodiversity BUT is dependent
on the status of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak nearer the time.
We're delighted to
relaunch the Photography Competition for a further two months of
entries.
In March we paused our
Photography Competition. With the lockdown restrictions introduced to help deal
with the coronavirus outbreak beginning to be lifted we think there is once
again the opportunity to showcase your incredible photographs. With the
lockdown limitations, implications of maintaining safe social distances and
restrictions caused by working from home we decided to alter the remaining
suggested themes to make them more suitable for the current environment. For
June the suggested theme is From my Window and for July we're suggesting Hidden
Gems. Both are open to interpretation and we hope you will enjoy looking for
suitable subjects or going back through your archive to find photos. [more]
Let's talk
countryside jobs.
On Tuesday 26 May we hosted our first Facebook Live Session with Lucy
McRobert, former Communications Manager for The Wildlife Trusts and
author of 365 Days
Wild who talked about careers in the countryside and conservation
sectors. The session is available to view online. [more]
.
- Woodland management sees new residents move in - Forestry and Land Scotland
- Boris Johnson ‘should prioritise a green recovery’ - Freshwater Habitats Trust
- Nominations are now open for the 2020 Tree of the Year competition. - Woodland Trust
- New route map points the way to £1 billion for nature conservation in Scotland - Scottish Wildlife Trust
- Green projects given support to attract private sector investment - Defra
- Success for Scottish seas: Scottish Parliament votes through Deposit Return Scheme - Marine Conservation Society
- A new research centre to study the growing problem of plastic waste - Bangor University
- £2 billion package to create new era for cycling and walking - Department for Transport
- Government to consider Nature Volunteer Force to tackle invasive species following Spending Review - Environmental Audit Committee
- Proposed Closure of Askham Bryan College’s Newton Rigg Campus - July 2021 - Askham Bryan College
- Upland sheep grazing impacts biodiversity and will take decades to recover - University of Liverpool
- Scientists find genes to save ash trees from deadly beetle - Queen Mary University London
- Climate could cause abrupt British vegetation changes - University of Exeter
- National Bat Monitoring Programme Annual Report 2019 - Bat Conservation Trust
- ‘Emboldened wildlife’ reported by National Trust during human lockdown - National Trust
- Highland osprey family welcome their first 2020 chick live online - Woodland Trust
- Beavers Build Back Better – but their future is not secure - The Wildlife Trusts
- It's a bug's life at Carr Lodge as nearly 400 species of invertebrate identified - The Land Trust
- Entangled Seal at Ravenscar - British Divers Marine Life Rescue
- ZSL Whipsnade Zoo celebrates birth of fourteen extinct-in-the-wild deer - ZSL
Details of recently added
online events, webinars and online learning. Mostly happening within the next
month.
.Just one addition this past
month: The Tree Council Branching Out Fund is now open.
Garnock
Connections is encouraging people to connect with their local heritage,
both cultural and natural
Print length this edition: 101 pages
The next edition
of CJS Professional will be published on: 9 July
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