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Conservation Volunteers' Story Archive

July 2010
07: Homegrown BBQ
June 2010
24: Lagan Valley Garden Therapy
21: Weeding for Wildlife in Washing Bay
20: Carbon Army - June 2010
15: Conservation Volunteers swap spades for guns in an effort to raise funds
May 2010
24: Belfast Marathon Update
14: Clay Pigeon Shoot Fundraiser
11: Planting for the Future
April 2010
29: Community Wildflower Planting in Victoria Park
15: Dig It and Eat It - on Saturday!
March 2010
26: Finnebrogue parkland restoration
February 2010
19: From Overgrown to Grow Your Own
17: Organic Success
15: Lakeview Sensory Garden
10: Clandeboye Talks
01: Minister welcomes new head of Northern Ireland Environment Agency
January 2010
22: Connswater Community Greenway
20: Recognising our Training for Success
17: Could you spare a few hours a week to volunteer?
04: A Greener Way
04: 2010 International Year of Biodiversity
December 2009
09: New Tree Planting World Record!
03: Tree o'clock
01: Carbon Army
November 2009
30: Come together to stop climate chaos
20: People's Millions - we need your vote!
October 2009
29: Get in the Game!
26: Green Heroes Awards ceremony
26: Autumn's bountiful harvest
19: Green Partnership
15: Our Volunteer of the Year
14: Group of Green Heroes
September 2009
30: Garry - Young Volunteer of the Year
25: Garden of Eden
24: Sean - our own Green Hero
August 2009
25: Plant Hunters
22: Rhododendron removal
July 2009
28: More Mud, Sweat and Cheers
25: 10 Downing Street
16: Our Hero Ivan
03: School children wage war on alien weed
May 2009
28: Conservation Volunteers at 25
April 2009
30: The importance of volunteering in the local community
08: Bairbre de Brun celebrates school food gardens
March 2009
24: Health Board work out on Green Gym
February 2009
27: Species spotting
12: A load of old rubbish!
06: Seeing Red at Gransha
03: Biodiversity PAKT
January 2009
22: Ring the Changes
December 2008
18: Make Green Gym your New Year's Resolution!
16: Young and old
11: Cutting trees down for Tree Week
08: Park Life
05: Celebrating National Tree Week and Biodiversity in Coleraine
November 2008
25: Where Eagles Dare - they meet Conservation Volunteers
24: Mater Green Gym wins award from Belfast Trust
06: HBOS "Do One Thing" for local wildlife
04: L'Derry CAT takes to the slopes
October 2008
15: Bridging the gap!
September 2008
28: Portglenone Enterprise Group receive B&Q Award
24: Tree planting at Norton's Cross
16: Lantra to address the needs of the environmental sector
August 2008
15: New community garden in Ballymurphy
14: Drumduff Boardwalk
14: Nature's First Friends
14: New community project in Larne
13: Spring flower show
12: L/Derry office in bloom!
08: New roads from old
04: Picnic in the Park
July 2008
30: Green Heroes at St. James's Palace
28: Take a woodland walk at the Loughs Agency
11: Ballymurphy Breathing Places
04: Drumahoe Chill Zone
01: Shrub planting at Ballymurphy
June 2008
25: Omagh garden SWAT
25: Copeland Bird Observatory gets new laboratories
24: Garden wins Bronze Award!
20: L'Derry's double SWAT
18: Environmental visit for Lantra Chairman
11: Crumlin Glen SWAT!
10: Our Limestone Landscapes
03: Portglenone Green Gym – Growing for Health
May 2008
28: Weekend walling course
27: Spring(watch) into Action!
26: Playtrail shows children the way
22: Biodiversity in Ballymurphy
19: Make Room for Wildlife
05: Spring into Action launched!!!
03: Millennium Volunteers success...
April 2008
22: Environmental Protection Agency
March 2008
31: White Young Green gets muddy
20: ECO-UNESCO Award
14: L'Derry and Gransha Wood gets new nest boxes
February 2008
26: Cavehill path restoration project gets underway!
26: Conservation Volunteers and Sustrans
22: Glen Going Green
21: Claudy goes Wild
12: Swatting a grot spot!
January 2008
23: Conservation Volunteers and climate change
14: Six Mile Water Guardians
05: On your bike!
December 2007
13: Mater Green Gym continues to Do It!
10: School and quarry team up for trees
November 2007
21: Free trees!
12: Sloe, sloe, quick, quick, sloe!
11: White Island Walling
01: Conservation Volunteers' trees need your help!
October 2007
29: Breathing Place on Copeland
15: Gathering Seeds in the Sunshine
15: Belcoo's Healthy Kids
10: JCI Recognises Outstanding Contribution
09: First Class Veg!
02: Where There's Muck...
September 2007
18: Bilberry Sunday and Lughnasadh Day
13: Mountdrum Time Team
01: Rare moth at Garrison
August 2007
31: Indian Summer
29: Germany calling!
24: The Graveyard Shift
21: Saturday morning Green Gym
07: Mater Green Gym: You Can Do It Award Winners 2007
July 2007
23: Nursery Trip for Traveller Children
10: Best Kept Small School!!
01: Green Gym Poem
June 2007
29: Biodiversity and the End of Term!
28: Springing into action!
11: Breathing life into Guildhall Square, L/Derry
04: Greening St. Teresa's
May 2007
10: Walking in the Castle Gardens
April 2007
29: Hedges instead of Houses
September 2006
11: Belfast City Council, Brighter Belfast Environmental Awards 2006
August 2006
11: Kew Gardens meets Conservation Volunteers
July 2006
05: Celebrating Belfast's Biodiversity
04: Beetle new to Ireland discovered in Insect Week
June 2006
30: Living Willows for Shade reaches fifty
06: Green Waste Recycling Project
May 2006
20: Busy at Balmoral - Our Historic Landscape
15: Biodiversity Event exceeds all expectations
April 2006
10: The end of the season!!!
March 2006
30: More trees for Newtownabbey conservation area
December 2005
08: Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns Grow
November 2005
15: Walking Together for Wildlife
03: Coppice - cutting down trees for conservation
October 2005
30: Caring for your free trees
09: Supporters Club for Businesses
02: Once upon a Time... A Tree Paradise
September 2005
21: If You Go Down to the Woods Today...
10: Big Lottery Fund Green Gym Extended
August 2005
22: Going to Work in Wellies!
May 2005
30: Sensory Garden, Fermanagh
09: Calm a Llama Drama - CAT captures South American in Sperrins
April 2005
25: In the company of stones
February 2005
28: Invest Northern Ireland tree planting event
December 2004
10: Christmas Comes Early
November 2004
25: The Ring of Oaks
September 2004
05: The Purpose and Effectiveness of ASSIs
July 2004
16: Help the Brimstone!
June 2004
25: Northern Ireland Tree Campaign launch
12: Volunteers Nominated for National Award
03: The Big Lottery
May 2004
12: The Old Man of the Forest
April 2004
24: Conservation Volunteers do it in 'Stile!'
March 2004
20: Local provenance trees at the Toome Bypass
February 2004
12: The Yew - Tree of deadly poison, incredible age and a universal symbol of regeneration
January 2004
21: Save money and help wildlife - cut hedges less!
December 2003
20: Trees of the North West
August 2003
30: Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs)
01: Wildlife in School Grounds
July 2003
05: Green Gym in the North West
June 2003
14: Biodiversity and Conservation Volunteers
May 2003
08: Harpur's Hill Primary School Project
April 2003
15: Celebrating 20 Years of Conservation Volunteering
October 2002
02: Biofuels - The 'Ethical Switch'
June 2002
18: Growth in Grounds 2001
03: Peatland Protection
May 2002
01: Fifteen Years at Laurel Glen, west Belfast
December 2001
01: Our Trees, Our City, Our Future
November 2001
20: More Oak for Derry City
July 2001
15: Engineering Success at St. Malachy's Primary School
June 2001
10: Drystone Walling on Rathin Island
05: Can You Dig It?
April 2001
29: St. Patrick's Day Conservation Holiday
March 2001
01: Closure of the Millennium Tree Campaign
 
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