Brockham Village
What Species do we see in the Surrey Hills ?
The Surrey Hills is home to some wonderful species and the society, In partnership with our land owners and managers and environmental experts have come up with a selection of species that if you are lucky you might see out and about in the Surrey Hills. These species will only thrive if we work together to keep their habitats managed and healthy. See their link for more details
iDot stands for I Do One Thing and it’s really simple.
Do one small action, every day, to help the environment. Douglas from Wildife Aid will be at the Village Hall on Sunday 3rd October to tell us more.
Click here to join in the campaign. Lets all do one thing for the environment, and inspire others to join the iDot movement.
https://www.hedgehogstreet.org
Hedgehog Street is a campaign to ensure hedgehogs remain a common and familiar part of British life. But they are in trouble. We’ve lost a third of all our hedgehogs since the millennium.
Fortunately, hedgehogs love gardens, and there are around half a million hectares of garden in the UK. Hedgehogs need access to lots of different gardens to survive, so their campaign is as much about getting people to cooperate as it is about gardening for wildlife.
If you see a Hedgehog out during the day (it is only common when they have small hoglets) or is injured or you want it out of your garden you can:
https://www.buglife.org.uk/bugs/bug-directory/ will help you identify facts and stories about invertebrates.
Buglife is the only organisation in Europe devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates. They are actively working to save Britain’s rarest little animals, everything from bees to beetles, worms to woodlice and jumping spiders to jellyfish.
Invertebrates are vitally important to a healthy planet – humans and other life forms could not survive without them. The food we eat, the fish we catch, the birds we see, the flowers we smell and the hum of life we hear, simply would not exist without bugs. Invertebrates underpin life on earth and without them the world’s ecosystems would collapse.
Invertebrates are facing an extinction crisis
Today, thousands of invertebrate species are declining and many are heading towards extinction. Worldwide 150,000 species could be gone by 2050 if we do nothing.
Each invertebrate species plays a unique and important role in the web of life, but once lost, they cannot be replaced. Many invertebrates have incredible life stories yet to be told, and we literally don’t know what we are on the brink of losing.
Buglife’s aim is to halt the extinction of invertebrate species and to achieve sustainable populations of invertebrates.
Swift Rescue Centre in Reigate - see their facebook page @SwiftProtectionAssociationReigate
Badgers and their setts are legally protected from intentional cruelty and from the results of lawful human activities. The legislation, The Protection of Badgers Act 1992, has provided badgers with unrivalled protection under the law.
https://www.badgertrust.org.uk
East Surrey Badger Group: click herel
