Category Archives: Wildlife and Nature

Community Planting Day – The Floating Islands

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Stephan Schulte

All local residents are invited to participate in a Community Planting Day on Sunday 8 July from 2 to 4 PM at the Treaty Street Canalside Regents Canal, N1. The purpose of the event will be to plant two new … Continue reading →

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Pentonville Tree Saga – The Council Response

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Stephan Schulte

Following up on the earlier postings by Sarah Ward, we have now had a formal response from Islington Council on the matter of the six trees that were felled as part of the new development at 200 Pentonville Road.  As … Continue reading →

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Not all bad news

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Sophie Talbot

Amongst all the bad news that needs our attention in Kings Cross this week, there is a small ray of sunshine. See the Springwatch King’s Cross post (in the Nature section, right hand side menu) for the latest news of … Continue reading →

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Vandalized Trees – An Update

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Stephan Schulte

This past weekend, I did a walk-about in the neighbourhood and counted the number of vandalised trees in the local area – there were 13 of them!  I sent a "report" to the Islington Tree Service and hopefully during the … Continue reading →

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Springwatch King’s Cross

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Sophie Talbot

June 13 from Sophie: the blackbird chicks fledged this morning! Suddenly the parents are acting quite strangely. They are both attacking any woodpidgeon in the vicinity, the female managed to peck out some tail feathers of a woodpidgeon in a … Continue reading →

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Vandalised Trees – What’s Being Done

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Stephan Schulte

This morning a meeting was held with folks from the Islington Tree Service (Jake Tibetts, James Gilchrist), and our Councillor Paul Convery to discuss what can be done to try to reduce the amount of vandalism that has resulted in … Continue reading →

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What Would The Sun Say?

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Stephan Schulte

How do you describe this? Yet another tree destroyed – this time on Lower Northdown Street. Does anyone have any ideas on how to stop this!

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Horticultural Resource Centre – Open Day

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Stephan Schulte

Received the following notice from one of our neighbours Lisa Pontecorvo regarding an Open Day at the Islington Resource Centre on Thursday 31 May from 10am to 3pm. See where the best bedding in London is grown: an opportunity to … Continue reading →

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