ANGUSalive has been successful in receiving a grant to clear and create a wildflower bank beneficial for bees and butterflies, by planting a mixture of approximately 200 cowslips, primroses and foxgloves to enhance the area. The area, around Forfar Loch Country Park, is currently lacking in diversity and it is hoped that this initiative will create an excellent source of food for our native bumblebees and butterflies and other important pollinators, enjoyed by visitors, young and old.
Mhairi Kimmet, ANGUSalive Countryside Adventure Ranger at Forfar Loch Country Park, who is co-ordinating the By Yon Bonny Banks They’ll Be Yon Bonnie Bees project, would like to see as many people as possible come along and help with their activity. Perhaps then consider becoming a volunteer within the Country Parks.
“Everyone can get involved in the local green spaces. They are a shared resource and a shared responsibility. From the smallest individual action to a nation campaign, every contributions helps! The Volunteering Matters Action Earth grants are designed to help volunteers take practical action to improve and create places for wildlife with guidance from ANGUSalive Countryside Adventure.
If you like being and working in the outdoors and are keen to become involved in enhancing Forfar Loch for the benefit of native wildlife, whilst having some fun too, call 01307461118 or email forfarloch@angusalive.scot
The initiative is exciting our regular visitors and previous participants in the Forfar Loch ‘Life on the Edge’ project as Mike Gardner and his wife commented:
We are excited by the plan to plant and nurture spring flowering plants to encourage the local wild life in their local habitat. We are looking forward to seeing the explosion of colour next spring which will bring the area to life. Well done ANGUSalive Countryside Adventure Rangers - Keep up the good work!
The activity at ANGUSalive’s Forfar Country Park is part of the Volunteering Matters Action Earth Campaign, supported by Scottish Natural Heritage. Volunteering Matters Action Earth will be supporting around 170 projects in Scotland in 2018 with grant awards of up to £500. These grants are aimed at groups who support and encourage volunteer activity through practical environmental projects.
ANGUSalive is pleased to welcome volunteers to support the work we do across our leisure, culture and sport services and is launching a roadshow during Volunteers’ Week, 1-7 June to highlight opportunities like this, as part of the week’s celebrations. For more information, see our Facebook event. https://www.facebook.com/events/240157403228803/
The initiative is exciting our regular visitors and previous participants in the Forfar Loch ‘Life on the Edge’ project as Mike Gardner and his wife commented:
We are excited by the plan to plant and nurture spring flowering plants to encourage the local wild life in their local habitat. We are looking forward to seeing the explosion of colour next spring which will bring the area to life. Well done ANGUSalive Countryside Adventure Rangers - Keep up the good work!
Forfar Loch is one of three country parks managed by the charity ANGUSalive and its Ranger Service. Located on the western edge of the historic burgh of Forfar, visitors can escape to the countryside yet be only a few minutes’ walk from town centre facilities. A wide variety of wildlife makes the country park its home. A wide variety of wildfowl plus fox, otter, beaver, kingfisher and roe-deer are some of the species which can be found.
ANGUSalive
ANGUSalive (SC046133) is the culture, sport and leisure trust for the county of Angus and has been operating since December 2015.
