by sarahjones | Jul 12, 2023 | Coast & Sea, Conservation, Nature & wildlife, Projects, Rural & Downs, Towns & city
You can share your thoughts, feedback and wishes for The Living Coast UNESCO Biosphere by completing a 10-minute survey. Every Biosphere is unique, and UNESCO recognises our internationally important natural environment, stretching from the Downs to the sea and... 
by sarahjones | Jul 11, 2023 | Learning & engagement, Nature & wildlife, Projects, Rural & Downs, Schools & education
The children have fed lambs, explored farmland on a trailer ride, investigated the life cycle of wheat, made bird feeders to encourage wildlife, turned themselves into a human combine harvester and even had a harvest wheatsheaf Bake Off! “Our children really... 
by sarahjones | Jul 10, 2023 | Coast & Sea, Conservation, Development & innovation, Impact, Nature & wildlife, Projects, Rural & Downs, Schools & education, Towns & city
We were proud to showcase our unique urban biosphere to a delegation from UNESCO in July. We showed how their funding is extending our work on protecting our fresh groundwater and natural flood solutions, as well as Environmental Education which is at the heart of our... 
by Sarah Ryman | May 11, 2023 | Conservation, Development & innovation, Projects, Rural & Downs
What is the project? The Cockshut is a 3km long chalk stream that flows from springs at the foot of the South Downs in Kingston, eventually joining The River Ouse before flowing out to sea. Work is about to begin to realign the stream into a new channel which will... 
by Jess Mead | Mar 30, 2023 | Conservation, Nature & wildlife, Partners, Projects, Rural & Downs
New community grants scheme for local groups to engage with the eastern South Downs, benefitting communities from Brighton & Hove to Eastbourne and Lewes. The Changing Chalk partnership has launched a new community grants scheme in eastern Sussex. The Changing... 
by sarahjones | Jan 25, 2023 | Conservation, Nature & wildlife, Rural & Downs
In 1992 greater mouse-eared bats (Myotis myotis) were declared extinct from the UK, but since 2002 a single male has been recorded hibernating in disused railway tunnels in West Sussex. He was officially known as ‘Britain’s rarest mammal’ and was assumed to have...
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