Woodland Ways News Pages. Here you will find copies of our current press releases, information bulletins and updates from volunteers. Latest Woodland Ways News Woodland Ways AGM 15th July 2007 You can attend our AGM from 9.30am when the new displays about our work will be available for view at Moreton Hall Community Centre. The AGM will start at 10.00am. All are welcome to hear about the work of last year and what we plan for the future. After the meeting at the Community Centre there will be a work party at Woodland Ways Pond. Come and join us. Greenlight Trust Annual Networking Day 19th May 2007 Full details to be published soon - watch this space or log on to the Greenlight Trust web page. This free event will be an ideal chance to meet old friends or to make some new ones, as well as look at the work of the Trust and their partners organisations. Greenlight Trust, The Foundry, Lawshall, Suffolk, IP29 4PJ. Email Adrian Murrell  - adrian @greenlighttrust.org or telephone him on 01284 830829 for more details. We'll see you there! Would you like to see Natterer's Wood and find out more?  On Sunday 10 September, join Woodland Ways for a walk around Natterer's Wood from 10.30 for around one hour.  You'll see the wild flowers, the new trees, and the giant bat, and be able to ask any questions you like.  Woodland Ways has a work party from 10am - midday, so you'll be able to watch members in action and ask any questions you like.  People with restricted mobility are very welcome, as we can stay on the tarmac path.  For the walk, meet at 10.30 at the entrance to Natterer's Wood at Kingsworth Road.  For more information please ring Nick Sibbett on 01284 723847 - email info@woodlandways.org.uk We're getting a new storage container! Watch this space for more news and photographs of the delivery and installation of the new Woodland Ways storage container. Designed as a permanent store for equipment and a base for our volunteer activity. We can hardly contain ourselves...(pretty poor: Ed.) Aerial Photographs now available Woodland Ways have been recording our work and progress we have made over the last year. We used a helicopter to photograph the completion of our Giant Bat on the hillside at Natterer's Wood, also taking the opportunity to photograph local schools, our community centre and Church. You can order professionally produced A4 prints of these photographs by printing out the order form from our downloads page. £4.99 + 65p P&P - high quality pictures - see order form for details, with all proceeds going to support the work of Woodland Ways. If you do - thank you! UN World Environment Day (Deserts & Desertification) Sunday 18th June County Upper School, Beetons Way, Bury St Edmunds The Bury St Edmunds Branch of the United Nations Association are holdng an afternoon of events at County Upper to celebrate World Environment Day. An eclectic mix of performance, film and music the afternoon starts at 2.00pm - Tickets £5 on the day or tel: 01284 764892 or 705792 Work Party 11th June Natterer's Wood and Action Earth 2006 Our next work party at Natterer's Wood is part of the   Environment Agency Action Earth 2006 programme. 'Over the last 16 years the Action Earth campaign has supported thousands of projects and people in making a positive difference t o their local environment. We challenge local communities to identify ways in which they can protect and enhance their built and natural environment to improve their quality of life and safeguard the environment for future generations'. www.actionearth.org.uk Action Earth 2006 has 1018 projects registered so far. Woodland Ways is one of them. if you would like to join us on the day, or to take your first step in helping to change your local environment, then contact us. Volunteer contact Nick Sibbett 01284 723847 We'll be happy to see you. What - Maintenance work on small trees. Where - Natterer's Wood - between Barton Road and Mount Road. See our woodland map here. When - Sunday 11th June at 10.30am. See you at the gate to Natterer's Wood. Natterer's Wood easy access path now open.   (Photographs of the ceremony by kind permission of Kirsty Pitwood). Our new footpath was opened at 10.30am  on 1st. March by renowned bat expert Dr. Robert Stebbings. The event was attended by local council members, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Green Light Trust, R & D Construction - the contractors for the site, as well as members of the local community and representatives of the local media.                      Dr.Stebbings opens the path with Fiona Chesterton (HLF), Nick Sibbett (WW) and Cllr. Terry Clements. After the ribbon cutting ceremony a group of Moreton Hall children, their parents and carers with a variety of buggies and pushchairs were the first ones to offically use the path. The circular path took the whole group down into the heart of the Natterer's Wood site, allowing everyone to enjoy the views across the town from the hillside in the bright wintry sunshine. Everybody was keen to see the Giant Bat. The centre of the bat will be a new wildlfower meadow. Easily reachable now from the connecting circular footpath, it will be an ideal place for  picnics in the summer. Woodland Ways will continue with their tree  planting programme, planning to cultivate some 3,000  new trees in the wooded areas that they manage on behalf of the local community. The Giant Bat in the hillside at Natterer's Wood. Dr. Stebbings pointed out at the ceremony the great decline in bat numbers in the area from the 1960's onwards. Stressing how important the creation of new habitats were in preserving species - not only the Natterer's Bat, but others too - Dr. Stebbings welcomed the funding by St. Edmundsbury Borough Council and the Heritage Lottery Fund in enabling Woodland Ways to carry out this innovative project. Nick Sibbett, Chair of Woodland Ways, used the opportunity of the gathering at Natterer's Wood to thank everyone who had been involved in the work of Woodland Ways to date and wondered what archaeologists would                                 make of the giant bat in a thousand years?                                                                                                               Despite the very cold wind, a good crowd of Woodland Ways enthusiasts turned out to try the footpath for the first time. It was great to see pushchairs finding it so easy to reach green spaces. As the trees that Woodland Ways are planting grow over the years, Natterer's Wood will increasingly be an important community resource for the people of the town.   If you would like to know more  about the work of Woodland Ways, or to volunteer for the regular work parties that the group undertakes in the area, you can email information@woodlandways.org.uk for more details. Woodland Ways will be delighted to hear any comments you have on our work. You can find us on our 'contact us'page on this web site. If you would like to have some news or information about activities with Woodland Ways  featured on these pages email us at information@ woodlandways.org.uk or see Our Woods    Partners     If you have any Woodland Ways news - let us know, you can email us from our contact us page. The Independent The environmental pages from the national newspaper. ENN  - The Environmental News Network Web based news agency for all major environmental matters. Planet Ark Your daily guide to environment news, Planet Ark carries a unique 'environment pictures feed' from Reuters. See change as it happens. The Guardian The environment pages from The Guardian. Thoughtful, interesting and up to date. Edie Electronic news feed from the UK. Business focussed but with UK and Euro updates on enviro-waste-water issues. Lancaster University Environment News Feeds Free service to web visitors to the University site. Constantly updated enviro-news feeds from around the world. SCENTA Nature news, always updated, from SCENTA, the UK bodyfor promoting careers in science. CUBE Urban environments matter - here you can see how buildings affect things too. More trees is the answer? Greenpeace Home page for active change. Panda.org/News The news pages from the World Wildlife Fund. Education Index A US site, but packed with up to date environmental links. Something for everybody.