Gift to Nature
an Isle of Wight conservation partnership
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Bees
Gift to Nature has spent the past four years researching what is hapenning to our bees, both locally and nationally. Using the evidence from our findings we have started to improve habitats and increase food sources for Island populations of threatened bees.
Save our Swifts
Since 1994 over half of the entire Swift population in South East England has been lost. This is likely to be the result of complex and interlinking factors both here and in their wintering grounds.
Elm Trees
Since 1997 we have been working to counteract the impact of dutch elm disease on the Island's landscape (particularly the AONB) and biodiversity (especially the elm-feeding butterfly the white letter hairstreak Satyrium w-album).
Alverstone Marsh
Alverstone marshes covers 200ha of land and is an essential habitat as well as an essential sink for carbon.
Arreton Cross
This is an area of grassland which was part of the Island's Million Blooms initiative, where rare flora and fauna were lost during some landscape planting. Working with our friends at the Green Gym we set about controlling the scrub to improve the amount of light reaching the site; re-planting some
Island Climate Care
This strand of Gift to Nature is about getting back to the roots of climate change. Our aim is to reduce the Island's greenhouse gas emissions from the land itself, and ensure the vital natural systems that will offer protection against the effects of climate change are restored. In the last
Bohemia Bog
*See our "Facebook page":https://www.facebook.com/gifttonature for details of our winter work 2011 funded by the Environment Agency.* Bohemia Bog (a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation) is one of the most important botanical sites of the Island, reminiscent of a New Forest wetland and home to species found nowhere else here on
West Wight Nursery
As part of the development of the garden at West Wight Nursery Gift to Nature installed a range of nature signs helping children spot the wildlife around them. This page gives a bit more information on each of the animals mentioned on the signs.
