The Friends of Rawcliffe Meadows are pleased to mark their 25 years of managing the site with a series of walks and talks during 2015:

Sunday 7^th June 2 p.m.

The Tansy Beetle: putting research into practice conserving the Jewel of York with Dr Geoff Oxford, University of York – Tansy Beetle specialist

Sunday 14^th June 2 p.m.

A mini-beast tour: explaining how invertebrate surveys inform site management (ponds, grassland, dead wood etc) with Martin Hammond, ecologist

Sunday 19th^th July 2 p.m.

The butterflies of a flood meadow: and how Butterfly Conservation use citizen science (transects, volunteer surveyors etc) to monitor population trends with  Dr  Rachel Pateman – Butterfly Conservation

For all events meet at end of track through Clifton (Without) and Rawcliffe  Allotments, off Shipton Road, York

For further information and directions visit

https://rawcliffemeadows.wordpress.com/

or telephone York (01904) 421218

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Form events summer 2015