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LATEST NEWS Essex Wildlife Trust has Saved Tile Wood Forever Essex Wildlife Trust has raised £50,000 from over 1,400 generous supporters and this has enabled Essex Wildlife Trust to buy Tile Wood. A massive thank you goes to all of those people who have donated. Tile Wood is over 1,000 years old - one of the earliest woodlands to be recorded in Essex. It is nestled between Pound Wood and Little Haven, both Essex Wildlife Trust nature reserves in Castle Point.It is vital that we save really important wildlife areas such as this ancient woodland to ensure that our children and our children's children experience these fantastic wild spaces and we conserve our Essex wildlife for the future. Ancient woodland is an irreplaceable habitat and once lost it is lost forever. [Read More] Our appeal finished on 31 January 2010. However, Essex Wildlife Trust still needs donations to do so much of its conservation work across the county. Please support our work and help us to Protect Wildlife for the Future and for the People of Essex. (Posted February 2010) Monks Wood Transect Help Requested This request is provided by Nick Greatorex-Davies, ex-Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, to find one or more people willing to help keep the longest-running transects in the country going.“Hi all, With the recent closure of CEH Monks Wood (‘last day of science’ 31st December 2008), there is no-one available at CEH to walk the three long-running Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (now UKBMS) transects in Monks Wood NNR, Bevill’s Wood (over the road from Monks Wood) and nearby Woodwalton Farm. CEH are keen to keep the three transects going (which have been running since 1974- before the scheme was officially launched in 1976) and I have been asked to try and find someone or several people who would be willing to help walk the transects from April 2009. The Monks Wood and Woodwalton Farm transects are considered priority over Bevill’s Wood. [Read More] If anyone is interested, or you know someone who might be, please contact as soon as possible so he can arrange to ‘show you/them the ropes’ and the route(s) and organise transect walking for 2009. He will provide more details of exactly what expenses may be paid when/if anyone offers to walk one or more of these transects." Best wishes, Nick (Posted February 2009) Branch Newsletter Archive - Your Help Needed The Branch obviously has a huge resource of information and data in its published newsletters and we realise that a single box file is a very vulnerable way of keeping this for posterity.Following a suggestion at the AGM (Nov 2008), the Branch committee has decided to make a back-up archive and are planning to have our ENTIRE NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE professionally digitally archived with a searchable index facility. To make this as valuable as possible, we need a full set of newsletters. The archive box appears to be missing 2 newsletters, so if anyone is willing to loan the following issues for the purposes of archiving, please e-mail or or phone on 01223 263962.
Formation of informal Moth Group for South East Essex I hope to do some further moth recording here in South East Essex this year, mostly not too far from my home in Rayleigh. The idea is to get more people involved in coming along to the recording, but preferably not too many as this is often counter-productive (ideally 4 - 8 people is plently).They have a moth group in north Essex centre around Colchester, organised by Joe Firmin, but there is nothing that I know of in my part of the world. Don Down and myself usually manage a few trips each year, and I am keen to involve others. I'm thinking of using 2 - 3 traps each session using a generator (kindly loaned to me by Sharon Hearle, East of England Project Officer for BC) with trips to EWT Langdon Reserve, Canvey Island, Hockley Woods, Thorndon Park, Foulness Island and hopefully a number of other sites in the area that presently have minimal moth survey data. Ideally these trips would start in March for the early spring species, and progress to October at least. People keen to be involved should contact Graham Bailey either by or phone on 01268 780736. I'm not able to give any definite dates at present as that is dependent upon my work, but they would most likely to be on a Friday or Saturday once or twice a month if all goes well. Graham Bailey February 2009 Essex Moth Group - New website and Newsletter Click here to visit the new The Essex Moth Group website which is now hosted by the Essex Field Club.The Essex Moth recorder, David Allen (contact details here), has also recently published a newsletter with:
Branch Birthday Celebrations! At the Branch Members' Day held on Saturday 15th November 2008 at Cambourne, near Cambridge, we were delighted that many members were able to enjoy some birthday cake, in honour of the Branch's 25th anniversary:
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