Joy of Recording: Cassandra Li

Mar 21, 2024

Discovering Mosses from Haringey to London’s Urban Wildness Cassandra Li – Conservation Ecologist & Bryologist in Training Committed to weaving biodiversity into the urban fabric, hand in hand with the community, I currently work as Team Leader at The...

Joy of Recording

Jan 28, 2018

Richard Bullock, WWT Biodiversity Officer The importance of wildlife recording first dawned on me in my late teens. During the early 1980s, I volunteered, at a Shropshire site called Stoneyhill, to look for three species of clubmoss ferns. Remarkably, they included...

Joy of Recording – Lesnes Abbey Woods

May 25, 2023

The ruins of Lesnes Abbey (© Drone pilot Jonathan Potts Director Dagmar Scheibenreif) Lesnes Abbey Woods, Bexley, is a hidden treasure in the heart of suburban London. Containing the remains of Lesnes Abbey, founded in 1178, the wood includes a diversity of wildlife...

Joy of Recording: Tom Fitton

Oct 19, 2023

Badger are regular nighttime visitors to Tom’s garden © Tom Fitton I mainly record in my own back garden in what I would describe as a suburban area of Orpington, South London. Although in the London Borough of Bromley, I am only a short distance from the Kentish...

Joy of Recording: Does watching and recording wildlife make a difference?

Dec 8, 2020

Allison Parkes, Barbican Wildlife Garden volunteer The Barbican Wildlife Garden (BWG) is a “green gem in the heart of the City of London!” It is one of three residents’ Gardens on the Barbican Estate and is approximately ten minutes walk from St Paul’s Cathedral. The...