Game and wildlife students at Reaseheath College in Nantwich have joined a project to build and install nesting tubes for mallard ducks.
The mallard, once the UK’s commonest wild duck, has seen its numbers drop over recent years and it is now on the Birds of Conservation Concern Amber list if concern for the species.
Reaseheath College conservation students have celebrated the Nantwich college’s 100th birthday and the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by planting a new wood of carbon busting trees.
The 800 trees – a wide mix of British native species – were donated by The Conservation Volunteers as part of its ‘I Dig Trees’ campaign.
Nantwich-based Cheshire Blades FC is improving its conservation area after it was awarded community funding from a house builder.
The club, located on Crewe Road in Willaston, has received a £1,000 donation from Redrow’s Kingsbourne community fund.
More than 60 members and guests gathered in Nantwich Museum to celebrate 50 years of Nantwich Civic Society.
The organisation has been serving the community and town to ensure conservation, good design and practical volunteering thrives.
Members of Nantwich Civic Society have celebrated the organisation’s 50th anniversary at the town’s museum.
The society was formed half a century ago by enlightened Nantwich residents, worried by the demolition of many historic buildings.
Hardy members of a new conservation group gathered for a Nantwich Lake big clean-up.
People leading the new Nantwich Lake Wildlife Conservation Group braved the wind and rain to carry out their first big initiative.
A new Nantwich Lake Wildlife Conservation group has met with Edward Timpson to outline plans for the town’s beauty spot.
The group, led by Caron Hull, has also been in contact with Cheshire East Council, Nantwich Town Council, RSPCA at Stapeley Grange, and Cheshire East Highways.
Organisers of the new Nantwich Lake Wildlife Conservation group say the first meeting was a big success.
Around a dozen people came together at the lake to discuss plans to improve the lake and surrounding area.
A councillor is furious that plans to demolish a historic Nantwich village pub were pushed through, despite a council conservation officer’s recommendation to save it.
The owners of The Horse Shoe Inn, on Newcastle Road, Willaston have applied to knock the closed pub down to make way for potential housing on the site.
A pub in Nantwich which faces demolition to make way for more housing, could be saved.
The Horse Shoe Inn, in Willaston, was earmarked under new planning proposals to be knocked down.
Eight Nantwich-based students are to join environmental projects abroad as part of their summer training. The Reaseheath College students, on a conservation and wildlife course, will gain experience in eco-tourism, environmental and woodland management during a four-week work placement.
Nantwich students took part in valuable conservation work during a tour to Botswana’s Northern Tuli Block. A group of 26 Reaseheath College students helped wildlife researchers to collect data on species diversity and abundance.
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