Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country
The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country is a
It covers five of the seven districts of the West Midlands county: Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.History
Created in 1980, by Chris Baines and others, it was formerly known as the Urban Wildlife Group,[2] and then the Urban Wildlife Trust, the United Kingdom's first urban Wildlife Trust. It was responsible for the first ever International Dawn Chorus Day event, held at Moseley Bog in 1984. In the mid-1980s it established Plants Brook Nature Reserve in Birmingham.
The Trust was the first UK Wildlife Trust to become a member of Countdown 2010 the European initiative to halt the decline in biodiversity by 2010.
In 2012 the Trust built a partnership that was successful in getting Birmingham and the Black Country declared as one of the UK's first tranche of Nature Improvement Areas.[4][5]
Description
The organisation had a 40 hectare reserve at
It is a full member of the
The trust carries out a wide range of activities to protest and develop biodiversity and engage with local people and various nature conservation, community and education projects. They carry out research, surveys and campaigns. Each year it co-ordinates
The Trust is managed by a council of trustees drawn from the membership. The Trust has about twenty full, part-time and contract staff and many active volunteers. They produce a regular magazine, Wildlife Focus, which provides coverage of their activities and a range of urban wildlife issues.
References
- ^ The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country website
- ^ See badge
- ^ "Black Country Living Landscape". Archived from the original on 27 September 2009.
- ^ "Nature Improvement Areas: Locations and progress".
- ^ "Leading the Way - Landscape Scale Conservation | the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country".
- ^ "Park Hall | the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country".
- ^ "Our Nature Reserves | the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country".