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A New Home for Our Little Yellow Friends

1st June 2022, by Katie Brown

Everybody loves daffodils. Those yellow trumpets that herald the arrival of spring. I don’t think I could name a more cheerful plant. Their Latin name “Narcissus” is also the name of a Greek legend where a beautiful young man fell in love with his own reflection and stared for so long that he starved to death. Daffodils might also be…

News, Volunteering, Wildlife reserves, General, Education and community, Species and habitats

Wild about wetlands!

2nd February 2022, by Cumbernauld Living Landscape

Today is World Wetlands Day, which is celebrated every year on 2 February to raise awareness of these amazing habitats. You may be wondering what wetlands are? Well, wetlands are classed as any habitat that is seasonally or permanently flooded with water. This means that rivers, lochs, marshes, peat bogs, estuaries and floodplains are just some examples of wetland…

General, Species and habitats, Wildlife reserves

We want your views!

17th December 2021, by Cumbernauld Living Landscape

The Scottish Wildlife Trust is inviting comments from stakeholders, local people and organisations on the proposed new Long-Term Forest Plan for its Cumbernauld Reserves. The document below explains what a Forest plan is, how and why the Trust manages its reserves here as it does, and what plans it has for management over the next twenty years. The maps at…

General, Wildlife reserves

Two new Access to Nature projects start work

1st December 2020, by Cumbernauld Living Landscape

Great news! As part of our Access to Nature work, which aims to make Cumbernauld’s green spaces more accessible for everyone, work is due to start on improving the paths through Seafar Woods and Ravenswood. The work has been funded primarily by the Campsies Centre. This is what we are planning: Seafar Wood path upgrades Managed by the Scottish Wildlife…

General, Projects, News, Wildlife reserves

We’re wild about bats!

14th October 2020, by Cumbernauld Living Landscape

We’ve been running some Bat Walks over the past few weeks and have loved telling people about these amazing creatures. Its been a great time of year to see them and Cumbernauld provides a fantastic habitat for them. Some of our walks have taken us down into Seafar Woods where the grassy clearings provide a supply of insects for these…

Events, Wildlife reserves

Go exploring

9th September 2020, by Paul Barclay

Although I’m not a local I’ve been working in Cumbernauld’s parks and wildlife reserves for several years now and I’ve come to know them pretty well. Imagine my surprise last week when I took a slightly different route from normal while I was out walking and came across somewhere completely new! At Cumbernauld Living Landscape one of our aims is…

Wildlife reserves, Creating Natural Connections, Wild Ways Well

Wild about wildflowers

2nd September 2020, by Paul Barclay

Late summer is a great time to spot wildflowers. Many plants use the time when days are still warm and light is still plentiful to put on their best displays of colour, working in symbiosis with pollinators to create breath-taking sights out in the parks and wildlife reserves. Cumbernauld has many great places to see wildflowers, Ravenswood, Luggiebank and St…

Species and habitats, Volunteering, Wildlife reserves, Wild Ways Well

Helping Cumbernauld’s amazing bogs

19th August 2020, by Cumbernauld LL

Cumbernauld Living Landscape’s amazing volunteers are out once again helping to manage and improve local greenspaces. You might even have seen our Nature Ninjas in Ravenswood Local Nature Reserve last week, working away in the blazing sunshine. Our first task was improving the access ways around the park. This included cutting back some of the over-hanging long grass and the…

Wildlife reserves, Projects, Volunteering

If you go down to the meadows today

1st July 2020, by Cumbernauld Living Landscape

The Cumbernauld Living Landscape team are gradually getting back out to visit some greenspaces in Cumbernauld. Tracy, our Project Officer for Young People visited St Maurice’s Pond recently and was amazed at how much the meadow was thriving! There’s such a diverse range of plant species to be found including knapweed, yellow rattle and birds foot trefoil. Benefiting from these…

Wildlife reserves, Creating Natural Connections, Education and community, Projects, Species and habitats, Volunteering

Taking Care Of Our Greenspaces

24th June 2020, by Cumbernauld Living Landscape

Local resident Kate Fromings has written this guest blog about why we should take better care of the town’s greenspaces. In Cumbernauld we are incredibly lucky to have the use of a plethora of greenspaces. No matter which side of the town you reside in, there’s a piece of nature just minutes from your front door. Abronhill has Forest Wood,…

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