Urban Coffee Company urge customers to do more than just drink their coffee
Urban Coffee Company have found a variety of ways to conserve coffee and stop generating ‘tons of coffee waste each year’. Simon Jenner, who owns the coffee shop along with Amir, says: ‘When we started looking at the coffee businesses we realised that the high street stores were sending a serious amount of used coffee [...]
Butterfly conservation project at Wyre Forest
A recent project at Wyre Forest is helping to generate more open space for butterflies by clearing areas and setting up ‘corridor’ links between one area of the forest and another. The forest works closely with the Butterfly Conservation and the Forestry Commission to manage projects concerning butterfly conservation. Phil Rudlin, who works at Wyre Forest, [...]
Cannon Hill Park walk introduces the refurbished Midlands Arts Centre
A discovery walk into Cannon Hill Park on the 6th March marked the opening of new and improved Midlands Arts Centre. Midlands Arts Centre has underwent a £120,000 refurbishment and will open it’s doors to the rest of the public on the 1st May. This ‘re-discovery’ walk was set up and led by employees at [...]
Birmingham Sea Life Centre campaigning against whale hunting in Greenland
The Birmingham Sea Life Centre is supporting a bid by the Whale and Conservation Society to stop a law in Greenland that allows the slaughtering of humpback. The marine centre has set up a petition on their website in an attempt to get this law banned and has leaflets about the bid within the centre. [...]
Bournville College Open Day
Bourneville College is hosting an open day on Saturday 6th March for prospective students who are interested in environmental education. The college offers a wide range of courses about Horticultural, Floristry and Conservation. Many of the courses are a one or two day a week programme, which allows for students to gradually build up their [...]
Public asked to set up bee hotels in their garden
OPAL Open Air Laboratories project are encouraging the public to set up an OPAL bee hotel in their garden to help protect bee populations. The project is funded by the National Lottery and aims to get people involved with green spaces, by introducing citizen science in the West Midlands. This has included carrying out a [...]
‘Make A Difference’ At Lickey Hills Country Park
Lickey Hills Country Park are encouraging people to volunteer at their ‘Make A Difference Day’ on 7th March to help protect the park’s heathland. The volunteer day is part of their clearance work on the parks heathland sites to help protect the natural habitat of wild growing plants, surrounding woodland and wildlife that’s attracted to [...]
Questions raised about Birmingham’s nature reserves and aquariums
The Captive Animals’ Protection Society (CAPS) have criticised nature reseves and aquariums like the West Midlands Safari Park and Birmingham Sea Life Centre for the captivity and treatment of the animals they keep. The Manchester based organisation commented after the recent death of trainer Dawn Brancheau at Seaworld in Florida, that it was a ‘consequence [...]