Avon Needs Trees (ANT) Bristol based Avon Needs Trees is a registered charity (1184386) that is buying land throughout the Bristol-Avon catchment area to reforest it. Planting trees will sequester carbon from the air, enhance biodiversity and provide natural flood management, as well as water and air quality improvement, and more public amenity space. |
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Press Release 26th November 2020
Volunteers needed to work on new local orchard - see below
Volunteers needed to work on new local orchard - see below
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Note: planting dates delayed
We are now looking for volunteers from tier 2 areas for both Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th of December Contact them to find out if you can join the team... |
Links to news articles and other sources on what
Avon Needs Trees is doing...
Why not contribute to the SEEND latest purchase project at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/avonneedstrees
A collaborative Zoom meeting organised by both the Friends of the Marden Valley, and Avon Needs Trees on the history of the Marden Valley; the River, the Canal, and the Railway Line.
The three speakers are Alan Lank, from the Wilts and Berks Canal Trust, Sue Boddington, the Curator of Calne Heritage Centre and Tim Havenith, historian and author of an upcoming book on the Marden Valley. Each talk with take around 20 minutes, with Q and As after if possible.
Topic: History of the Marden Valley; the River, the Canal, and the Railway Line
Time: Oct 29, 2020 18:00 London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83113529639?pwd=UDQvZ3MyTE9uUTVxUGNtY1RHZkFIdz09
Meeting ID: 831 1352 9639
Passcode: 143511
ANT Site Tours
ANT are offering site tours of their land at Hazeland on Sunday November 1st. Attendees should allow 1.5 - 2 hours and each tour will be in a group of no more than six, staggered throughout the day. Anyone who would like to attend should email Dorian, the ANT administrator, on dorian.wainwright@avonneedstrees.org.uk indicating whether they would like a morning or afternoon visit. They will allocate times as far in advance as possible.
More Good News from ANT - Seend land purchase Crowd funding gathering pace - do read here and share
2020/10/05 Update on Launch, news and lots more information
https://mailchi.mp/d65c088b2989/more-biodiversity-news-fundraisers-and-pub-quizzes-4028697?e=cd823e0c49
https://mailchi.mp/d65c088b2989/more-biodiversity-news-fundraisers-and-pub-quizzes-4028697?e=cd823e0c49
2020/09/14: The purchase of Hazeland near Calne was completed in August 2020 and launched this month. Avon Needs Trees are now raising the funds for another 19 acres at Seend, near Melksham. ANT sees this as a long-term project, 20 years minimum, buying land to replant and rewild, to create new permanent woodland.
2020/09/13 Avon Needs Trees PRESS RELEASE 13th September 2020 New Woodland for Calne (Hazeland official launch)
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2020/09/13 Radio Wiltshire Podcast 13th Sept 2020 New Woodland for Calne (Hazeland official launch day interview)
https://we.tl/t-m8DzFS6dmg
https://we.tl/t-m8DzFS6dmg
2020/09/12 Gazette & Herald 12th September 2020 New Woodland for Calne (Hazeland)
https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/18716638.new-woodland-calne-avon-needs-trees
https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/18716638.new-woodland-calne-avon-needs-trees
2020/09/12 Wiltshire Times 12th September 2020 New Woodland for Calne (Hazeland)
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/18716639.new-woodland-calne-avon-needs-trees/
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/18716639.new-woodland-calne-avon-needs-trees/
A few images of biodiversity taken at Hazeland Calne