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2010 is International Year of Biodiversity – it’s a celebration of life on earth and of the value of biodiversity for our lives.
Worthys Conservation Volunteers is marking this special year by featuring a series of monthly articles on a variety of topics about our local wildlife.
The second of these for the month of May is 'River Species'
“For many, the Itchen Valley evokes a landscape of crystal clear chalk rivers and streams turning this way and that, of a patchwork of watercress beds and grassy meadows and summer wildflowers, of dragonfly fluttering in the wind and kingfisher fleeting low over the water, and of playful otter and water vole.
In The Worthys we are privileged to live so close to such a nature-rich river landscape – certainly one of the finest.”
We have also set up a nature database to help build a picture of what’s in our parishes.
We would like your help- so do log on to www.worthysconservationvolunteers.org.uk/naturewatch and record your own sightings.
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