Swifts added to Suffolk's Biodiversity Action Plan
Swifts have been visiting the UK since Roman Times, providing a
wonderful sight during the summer as they swoop
screaming through the skies. However, the swift is now in
trouble with numbers having declined by 47% over the past ten
years. In view of this, swifts were recently added as a 'local
character' species to the Suffolk plan. Suffolk Wildlife Trust are
working on swift conservation across the county.
For further information about swifts and their conservation
visit Swift
Conservation and the
RSPB
SBP at the Suffolk Show
This year, SBP had a stand at the Suffolk Show in
early June. With glorious weather to bring in the crowds, we
were delighted to greet partners and many others interested to hear
about our work for the first time. The stand featured our
county-wide traditional orchard survey, an inspiring Suffolk
Coastal communities’ project, the high profile Suffolk and Norfolk
Brecks Biodiversity Audit and Martin Sanford’s new Flora of
Suffolk.
. Paul Read talks to Steve Piotrowski of Suffolk
Wildlife Trust and Martin Sanford and Ben Heather of Suffolk
Biological Records Centre about traditional orchards.
With grateful thanks to Suffolk Wildlife Trust
who hosted SBP's stand at the Suffolk Show.
Read about the work of SBP
SBP's leaflet, launched at our conference in November 2009,
can be downloaded
here.
New reports and newsletters
Speckled Wood newsletter Spring/Summer 2010 (PDF 1 MB)
EU Fisheries Management, Parliamentary Office of Science &
Technology Postnote No. 357 May 2010 (PDF 471 Kb)
Breckland Biodiversity Audit newsletter
April 2010 (PDF 674 Kb)
This newsletter brings you up to date with what's happening in this
important Norfolk/Suffolk initiative.
Suffolk Biodiversity Partnership Newsletters
The Partnership has a regular 2-monthly newsletter
highlighting the biodiversity work of partners and providing
information about grants, conferences, project opportunities
and events. The newsletter contents are shown under the title,
click on the title itself to see the full newsletter. Each edition
also contains an SBP update, local and national biodiversity
information and What's On. The next newsletter is due
early October 2010.
July 2010 (PDF 770 Kb)
Suffolk Wildife Trust's work with swifts, the Campaign for the
Farmed Environment, free GIS viewers and tools, success with
protecting the little tern colony at Kessingland, EA volunteers
looking to help with conservation projects, Suffolk Coastal's
Greenprint Forum, vegetation surveys and more with Dedham Vale AONB
and Stour Valley Project, update on Suffolk's BAP butterflies,
butterfly success at Chilton Meadow, introducting Suffolk Coastal's
new Community Environmental Action Advisor, SBP heathland group at
work, SBP funding support.
May 2010 (PDF 910 Kb)
Eel populations in East Anglia, Black poplar DNA work, Lound Lakes
breeding birds, south Sandlings Living Landscape project, Nowton
Park update, Dingy Skipper hunt, new orchard at Hartismere School,
Bures Mill fish and eel pass. Partnership news: heathland habitat
working group, executive steering group, SBP at the Suffolk
Show
March 2010 (PDF 896 Kb)
Pillwort at Lound Lakes, Surveying for black poplars with Google
Street View, Sutton Heath - a living landscape, Suffolk hedgerow
survey, Publication of a new Flora of Suffolk, Sudbury Common
Lands, Suffolk Wildlife Trust's WildLearning project, Take part in
Suffolk's garden hedgehog survey. Partnership news: steering group
at Nowton Park, Suffolk's Biodiversity Action Plan review progress
and Planning group update.
January 2010 (PDF 464 Kb)
Suffolk tree sparrow project, climate change adaptation in
Orfordness and Havergate Island, Broads Authority peat project,
regional bat conference, Alde and Ore Futures, More bats find
converted pillboxes, launch of SBP's NERC Act website and Suffolk
Coastal's community projects webpage.
November 2009 (PDF 853 Kb)
Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley Project update, Haverhill's new
amphibian breeding ponds, 'Snakes, slow worms and orchards',
pillwort, barn owls and more at Lound Lakes, dog awareness campagin
for the Suffolk Coast and Heaths, Eye wildlife survey, butterfly
monitoring in North Warren and Aldringham Walks Nature reserve and
Dunwich Forest, Suffolk Biological Records Centre 'reaches a major
milestone', barn owls in Ipswich, crayfish ark project, Suffolk and
Norfolk's planning seminar and Brecks biodiversity
audit.
August 2009 (PDF 555 Kb)
Suffolk Biological Records Centre update, Hedgerow survey, crayfish
'ark' project, Suffolk's soil savers, Martlesham's grass snakes
live!, orchard survey update, wildlife and art: crystal glass
sculpture Endangered.
June 2009 (PDF 891 Kb)
Holywells Park goes batty, East of England bird group, crayfish
'ark' project, encouraging news on the silver studded blue, Saving
the sea swallow, NE's wetland BAP habitat inventories, horsing
around in our AONB, notes from a private nature reserve,
biodiversity in the Stour Valley, orchard survey update, Green
Light Trust flash of good news, why be a member of SBP?
April 2009 (PDF 618 Kb)
Encouraging community biodiversity in Suffolk Coastal, Butterfly
futures in Dunwich Forest, Suffolk community barn owl project
linked to harvest mouse study, Suffolk hedgerow survey, stag beetle
distribution, Flash of Good News from the Green Light Trust, Mid
Suffolk District Council sign up as a Breathing Places
community.
February 2009 (PDF 281 Kb)
Floating pennywort on the River Waveney, Suffolk County Council's
roadside nature reserve cut and collect scheme, Landseer Park
(Ipswich) update, A Living Landscape for Suffolk's dormice, Water
Framework Directive consultation, butterfly survey, Suffolk
crayfish 'ark' project, tree sparrows, RSPB reserve mammals,
planning update, Focus on Local Authorities.
December 2008 (PDF 365 Kb)
Stag beetle dispersal, Otters & stillwater fisheries guidance,
Heathland restoration at Tiger Hill LNR, Wet woodland in the
Waveney valley, Beachwatch in Suffolk, From landfill to larks
Ipswich Borough rangers, Is pillwort losing the fight at Lound?,
Suffolk hedgerow survey, Planning update, focus on Habitat Working
Groups.
September 2008 (PDF 356 Kb)
Bats at Ickworth Park, The Deer Initiative, Suffolk Traditional
Orchard survey, Stag beetles, Lound Lakes reserve, Barnby Broad
restoration.
July 2008 (PDF 165 Kb)
Silver-studded blue butterfly re-introduction at Blaxhall
Common, News from Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley, Hunting for
the Scarlet malachite beetle in Suffolk, Elveden Estate and Natural
England partnership, Suffolk hedgerow survey, Underground
electricity lines at Blythburgh marshes, Corton Woods project
award, Ponds and great crested newts.
June 2008 (PDF 152 Kb)
Elveden Center Parcs and Biodiversity Benchmark Award, River Stour
eel and fish pass, 2008 East Anglian marine mammal leaflet.
Marine mammals
In May 2008, Suffolk Biodiversity Partnership joined forces with
the Norfolk
Partnership and Essex Biodiversity Project (EBP) to launch a
regional survey of our East Anglian marine mammals. This continues
the work of the successful Essex project which has run for
several years. Further information about previous survey
results can be found on the
EBP website.
To find out which marine mammals may be seen off the Suffolk coast,
download the 2008
leaflet
here (PDF 264 Kb).