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Free Upcoming Training Day Opportunity

Pollinator Walk Training Day

Friday, 22 April 2022 11:00 - 14:00

Enjoy the buzz on Martin Down with our Pollinator Walk Training

We hope this email finds you well! We want to raise awareness of an upcoming free day of training which we are holding in partnership with the Hampshire County Council Countryside Service.

This opportunity is perfect for anyone who is interested in getting outdoors and learning something new. Nature enthusiasts or aspiring rangers, biologists, amateur botanists, or members of the community interested in helping to protect our local environment. Also young people who are looking to work with the environment or setting their sights on a career in biological sciences.

Training Day Details

Pollinators are incredibly important for our environment and they help to shape everything we see around us. They have an important, positive affect on all our lives as they not only support other wildlife but are beautiful creatures and have fascinating lives.

Working in partnership with Hampshire County Council Countryside Service Chase & Chalke are setting up a series of Pollinator Walks at Martin Down National Nature Reserve.

Our pollinators include bees, wasps, butterflies, moths and hoverflies and they all feed on nectar so flowers are crucial for their survival. We love our sweet-smelling wild-flower meadows, cherry blossom, beautiful bright flowering plants-but they don’t do it for us. Attracting insects ensures these pollinators take up pollen from one flower and bring it to another flower of the same species.

Moving between flowering plants they also pollinate them and help them reproduce (a ‘sex for food’ exchange first discovered by Christian Konrad Sprengel end of the 18th century Christian Konrad Sprengel | German botanist | Britannica).

Pollinator Walk Training

This is an introductory day to begin to learn the common flowers that make the calcareous grasslands of Martin Down National Nature Reserves their home, and to discover and learn about the groups of pollinators they rely on.

With Mike Fussell, Countryside Ranger for Hampshire County Council, you will take the first steps in learning how to walk and record plants and their pollinators.

The methods include walking an imaginary 5m wide band along a specified route (also known as a transect) and making a note of the abundance of flowers and pollinators along the way.

Regular transects will be set up to monitor these groups of plants and insects throughout the summer months, and we’re hoping you will join our team of regular volunteer surveyors who will continue these surveys commit to carrying this out.

This promises to be a charming day spent outdoors with our friendly team and volunteers! If anyone would like to come along, they just need to register their details on our volunteer hub here, and select the day from the calendar: https://app.betterimpact.com/PublicOrganization/f3e4faf9-42c8-48fb-8100-3ea8378727d5/1

Alternatively please email chaseandchalke@cranbornechase.org.uk and we will assist you with and questions or registration queries you may have!

Learn about the Chase & Chalke Landscape Partnership

The Chase & Chalke Landscape Partnership is a group of organisations working to protect and enhance the special landscape of Cranborne Chase and the Chalke Valley.

We work with Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) as our lead partner. We will be sending out updates on our projects and activities. Learn more about Chase & Chalke here.

A map of the chase and chalke area

Learn more about who we are, what we do, and the projects of the scheme on our website.

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Funding for the Chase & Chalke Landscape Partnership Scheme comes from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thank you to National Lottery players for making our work possible.

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