£3.5m bid to create new woodland in Yorkshire Dales 26/05/2021, 12:09 am
The plans would bring native woodland back to the bleak open landscape at Snaizeholme (James Reader/Front Row Films/WTML)
The Woodland Trust is launching a £3.5 million drive to buy 550 acres of the Yorkshire Dales and create new wooded habitat for rare red squirrels.
The conservation charity is appealing to the public to help it raise funds to buy Snaizeholme, a bleak, open landscape near to Hawes, where the Wensleydale cheese famously favoured by Wallace and Gromit is made.
If the trust is successful in purchasing the site, it aims to plant trees and help woods naturally regenerate to create new native woodland within a mosaic of habitats that will also include meadows, grassland and peatland.
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Underdale High School’s new creative arts centre is on song
It’s almost show time for Underdale High School’s new creative arts centre, which boasts art, music and drama areas and a performance space for 150 people.
The creative arts centre is part of the school’s $20 million capital works program, which also includes a refit of the home economics and technology buildings, refurbishment and upgrades to general learning areas andm a new 2 storey administrative building.
With the new construction and upgrades across the site the project is creating 32 construction jobs.
“It’s very exciting to get the first look at the fantastic new creative arts centre which will benefit western suburbs students for generations to come,” Minister for Education John Gardner said.
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Inspired by the way plants like Venus flytraps can snap closed and reset themselves, scientists have developed new materials that alter their shape in the blink of the eye as a way of propelling themselves forward, powered only by their own energy and their interactions with the environment. These self-propelling devices could find uses in all sorts of areas, ranging from toys, to robotics and mechanical systems for the US Army.
This new material is the handiwork of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose research was funded by the US Army with the intention of recreating the mechanisms of fast-moving organisms in engineered systems. This refers to plants and animals that feature spring-like body parts that enable ultra-fast movements. We ve seen this form of biomimicry make it into robotic grippers inspired by the Venus flytrap, for example, though these typically rely on external power sources to trigger their movement.