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Green Roofs for Greater Manchester
Inspired by the story of how TraffordCity gained its first green roof on the new Kids Allowed children’s nursery, Green Roofs for Greater Manchester welcomes you to join green roof experts to:
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GM Launches Ecosystem Services Mapping Tool
The first city region-wide Ecosystem Services Opportunity Mapping Tool was launched as part of the Mayors Green Summit in March and provides a valuable resource for funders, policy-makers, project developers, partnerships and infrastructure planners to inform and support their decisions on the protection of the natural environment and investment projects.
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Have your Say! – My Wild City Survey
The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside has partnered up with Manchester City Council to celebrate and improve the wildlife and wild spaces right on our doorstep as part of a project called My Wild City (you can find out more about the project here).
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Discovering Manchester’s wild side
With its rivers, canals, parks and trees, Manchester is a magnet to all sorts of creatures which go unnoticed by many people living and working there. Urban nature lovers will no longer have to look exclusively to the countryside for their nature kicks, when they realise there is wonderful wildlife bounding all around them.
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Manchester Festival of Nature is here! #MFoN
#MFoN – A Month long celebration of urban nature was kicked off royally by the 130th anniversary of the RSPB celebrations in Didsbury on Saturday.
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Manchester Festival of Nature
On Saturday 29 June 2019 Lancashire Wildlife and Manchester City Council are joining forces with a group of incredible nature organisations to celebrate Manchester’s wonderful wildlife.
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SuDS in the City
In partnership with Green Blue Urban City of Trees are running a freer seminar, SuDS in the City on the morning of July 3rd at the St James Buildings on Oxford Road in Manchester City Centre. Breakfast refreshments will be provided.
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Ground-breaking IGNITION project gets under way
Partners across the city-region have signed a multi-million pound European contract for a project which looks to develop innovative ways of financing natural solutions to deliver resilience to increasingly extreme climate hazards.
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City of Trees Green Infrastructure Seminar
This free seminar will bring together a range of speakers who will explore this very issue and how trees, woods and other GI can positively impact on both people’s physical health and mental wellbeing.
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23rd European Forum on Urban Forestry
Urban Forestry for a Resilient Future will explore the critical functions provided by our urban tree resource in making our cities resilient for the 21st Century and beyond.
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Cities4Forests global initiative
Mayor Andy Burnham has committed the city region to join Cities4Forests alongside 44 other cities across six continents
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Sowing the seeds of success with a new well being garden
Older adults at North Manchester General Hospital can enjoy a new wellbeing garden thanks to green-fingered mental health service users and social enterprise Sow the City.
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