Moving Mountains Nature Network

I am pleased to say that after months of preparation and research, this project went live yesterday.

It is basically designed to link as many areas of importance to wildlife as possible, so that co-ordinated recording and surveys can be carried out, in order to support future STATE OF NATURE reports.

However once I have a membership of 500 sites, I will be approaching organisations and individuals, in order to appoint a patron and trustees so that the Network can provide education through schools to create future generations of nature lovers, and also to raise funds for nature protection schemes.

I am also pleased to announce that after sending out my first batches of information to local councils yesterday, I have been overwhelmed with the response that I have received. It seems that there is so much hope from the fact that the authorities are willing to assist so much with promotion of bio-diversity and protection of wildlife.

I have contacted every organisation that assisted with the STATE OF NATURE report so that they are aware of this project.

I am at the stage now where I am looking for all you keen birders and wildlife enthusiasts out there to join the network.

If you watch and record the wildlife at a particular site or "patch" then please visit http://www.movingmountains4nature.blogspot.co.uk

I have included a link to the network from this blog.

The site tells you how the network works and shows you how to become a member.You can choose whether you wish to take part in recording, surveys, education or fund-raising.

As soon as we reach the 500 membership mark, then we shall have the power to "Move Mountains", in order to protect the U.K's amazing wildlife and the project will move on to the next level.

By the end of this week the Smestow Valley blog will be passing the 10,000 visits milestone, since it went live on 1st January this year. Thank you so much to everyone who has visited and supported this blog. We are now number 1 on google when you search for "Smestow Valley". Moving Mountains is, at the moment lost on google, but I hope that by the time that this appears as number 1, then our nation's wildlife will be secure and the species loss shall have been halted, once we have found out exactly what caused such a rapid decline in the last 40 years.

Thank you so much for taking the time out to look at this.