With everyone spending more time at home due to lockdown now is an ideal time to think about how we can look after the wildlife we might see around us, either by building a home for birds or bees, or getting creative with different types of bird feeders for your garden, windowsill or balcony.
Giving wildlife a helping hand through the darker, winter months can make a big difference and, as research demonstrates, you can be sure of the pay back through improved wellbeing by just noticing and appreciating the natural world all around us.
Blue tit feeding at Sheringham Park in Norfolk by Rob Coleman
• As 23,000 persons suffer respiratory related ailment in five years
Following recent increase in activities of illegal refiners and bunkerers, there is fear in Rivers State that this may cause a surge of deadly black soot in the atmosphere. A reviewed report of a technical team set up by the Rivers State government and headed by the state’s former Commissioner for Environment, Prof. Roseline Konya, revealed that about 22,077 persons have suffered from respiratory related ailments in the last five years.
The team, made up 20 experts from various inter-disciplinary and relevant fields, including a consultant physician and dermatologist at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Dr. Dasetima Altraide, had conducted investigative studies into the airborne particulate (soot) in Port Harcourt and the report stated that illegal bunkering and gas flaring are two major sources of soot in the state.
Peregrine falcons nesting at Corfe Castle. Picture: National Trust EXTREME weather including one of the hottest years on record, as well as lockdown restrictions, has had a huge impact on UK wildlife in 2020 – with peregrine falcons nesting in a popular tourist spot in Dorset. National Trust say 2020 is likely to be one of the three warmest years on record, with a mild winter with very little snow, a long dry spring followed by the sunniest and driest May on record created the perfect conditions for some species to thrive, particularly certain species of birds, butterflies and moths. Fewer people during the peak breeding season of spring has seen wildlife move in and plants thrive in locations that would ordinarily be considered tourist hotspots, especially in Dorset.
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