Over 50 volunteers signed up to be Wildflower Guardians in August 2023 as part of the Changing Chalk – Greening the Cities project. Their mission is to improve biodiversity and support public engagement. The work involves maintaining and extending existing B...
The soils around Brighton and Hove are rich in chalk and support a variety of rare wildflowers, insects and animals that make the South Downs their home. Main image: Autumn Lady’s Tresses growing in a grass verge in Brighton & Hove, summer 2023 Healthy Soil...
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...
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...
Our City Our World works with schools in Brighton & Hove on a whole school, whole city approach to sustainability and climate change. The strategy aims to:• Develop an integrated environmental education curriculum, gradually and systematically ‘greening’ the...
For the past 3 years, local volunteers have mounted a toad patrol during mating season to monitor numbers. This year they saw a drop to almost half those counted in 2020, the first year of the patrol. The toads appeared a month late this year, in March. Volunteers put...
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