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Where the Wrynecks sing: three years of nature conservation in Poland
March 21 @ 19:15 - 21:00
Jim Ashton is a naturalist with a broad knowledge of the ecology of European plant and animal species. He has spent his entire professional career creating sanctuaries for wildlife in the UK and abroad – designing, building and managing spaces for nature, from small gardens to large nature reserves, working for or alongside organisations including the Wildlife Trusts, the National Trust and the RSPB. He has been an ambassador for Butterfly Conservation, Bat Conservation Trust and the British Dragonfly Society. Jim has also given lectures and talks to large organisations and nature groups and has run practical workshops for the Wildlife Trusts, alongside personally undertaking management works on some of their nature reserves. He has written extensively on wildlife habitat creation in gardens, on nature reserves and on the topic of rewilding.
Jim will talk about the experience of living in Poland amongst an abundance of Wildlife, species now extinct or declining in the UK, his efforts to protect and support them over there and how this links into his conservation work in Wales.
It will be £1 on the door to cover room hire