Alexandra Wales - 26-Oct-2007
- Children are helping to encourage wildlife
back to Castleford’s riverside when they
help make insect and bird nesting boxes
this Saturday at Lock Lane Community Centre.
As part of a partnership project between
the Environment Agency, the RSPB and Castleford
Riverside Community Group, up to twenty
children will be at Lock Lane Community
Centre to help create the new homes for
a new wildlife garden.
Officers from the Environment Agency and
the RSPB will be on hand to help the children
make the structures and teach them about
the types of wildlife they can expect to
find in the local area.
Darren Starkey at the Environment Agency
said: “This is a great opportunity to get
the local children interested in their local
environment and wildlife. Once the boxes
are put in place we’ll continue to help
the children monitor wildlife in the new
garden.”
The RSPB has donated 20 pairs of binoculars
and some bird monitoring books to the children
at the community centre to use when the
garden is established.
James Dean from RSPB Fairburn Ings said:
“We want to encourage the children to learn
more about the local wildlife by becoming
green space wardens. We hope the boxes will
encourage a range of insects and bird species
including the tree sparrow, willow tit and
small coal tit.”
Once the insect and bird boxes have been
completed they will be positioned with the
help of the RSPB behind Lock Lane Community
Centre.
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Notes to editors
Photocall: Castleford children will be
making nesting and insect boxes with help
from the Environment Agency, RSPB and Castleford
Riverside Community Group on Saturday October
27th from 10am at Lock Lane Community Centre,
William Street, Castleford.
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Environment Agency and museum team up for
unique flooding exhibition
Paul Gainey - 26-Oct-2007 - A month long
exhibition depicting historic flooding in
Tiverton is to be staged in a unique collaboration
between the Environment Agency and Tiverton
Museum.
Local people have contributed photos and
personal memories of flooding, particularly
from the 1960’s. These photographs and a
documentary film produced by students at
Tiverton High School will form the basis
of the exhibition.
The exhibition, which runs from 8 November
to 1 December, chronicles past floods in
Tiverton and graphically shows the disasters
through photographs. It also explains what
work has already been done to help relieve
flooding and looks at today’s role of the
Environment Agency
‘We will also be highlighting the work
that the Environment Agency carries out
to reduce the risk of flooding and how we
help people to protect themselves through
our Flood Warning systems,’ said Caroline
Trevaskis for the Environment Agency.
‘To compliment the exhibition, our flood
warning teams will be in Tiverton in late
November to promote the flood warning direct
system and floodline.’
The film was made by Tiverton High School
after they invited local residents who witnessed
the events of December 1960 to record their
memories. The personal experiences and memories
have now been preserved for ever as part
an historic archive.
