NEWS - 2005

18.09.05 -
30.09.05

Go Wild in South Africa with Nick Baker
An exclusive wildlife experience of South Africa's 'big seven' lead by Nick. The emphasis of this tour is activity-based wildlife interactions. Contact info@rainbowtours.co.uk for details.

Watching Wildlife, Flatford Mills 
An exciting holiday course for families exploring the countryside around Flatford Mill to look for the summer daytime and night time high flyers - birds and bats, dragonflies and damselflies, butterflies and moths - and other animals too. Activities include a visit to the RSPB Reserve at Minsmere and other special sites for wildlife in the local area.

This year he will be assisted by his wife Mireya, who is also a very experienced naturalist and broadcaster.

Waking Up to Wildlife
From July 16th to 31st events will be held on LNRs around the country to encourage more people to explore and enjoy LNRs and to show them how getting close to wildlife can be good for both your physical and mental wellbeing.

The celebrations will be marked with a major event at Shire Brook Valley LNR in Sheffield on Sunday 17th July. Surrounded by five towns, Shire Brook Valley is a fantastic green oasis with woodlands, ancient hedgerows and meadows, lowland heathland, ponds and marshland.

Fitness guru Mr Motivator will lead a Wild Workout on the reserve and Nick  will take visitors on a Wildlife Safari where they can have a hands-on experience with some of the reserve's creatures. Visitors to Shire Brook Valley may be able to catch a glimpse of the water voles, harvest mice, great crested newts and badgers that live there, or could even come face to face with the highland cattle that graze on the site during the summer months.

There will also be a chance for children and adults to take part in sporting activities, arts and crafts.

More details of this event and the many others being held around the country during these celebrations will be available at www.english-nature.org.uk soon.