26 September 2019
BY:
Claire Hector
Signs of change! The Willow Walk is a 1km case study of shaping better places! Part-living field study guide, community project, urban rewilding and we believe a good example of how businesses can help to build natural and social capital on their doorstep.
15 August 2019
BY:
Claire Hector
Under the Pier in a Biosphere… where people, wildlife and place come together!
26 July 2019
BY:
Claire Hector
The Isle of Wight has been recognised by UNESCO for its outstanding natural and cultural capital, and its creative ways in helping people and nature thrive together.
27 June 2019
BY:
Claire Hector
The Lost Duver project’s really coming alive now with colour and buzz along Culver Parade, in Sandown Bay and we’ve been snapping pictures recently of this coastal flora restoration. Our not-for-profit co-organisation The Common Space curates this experimental combination of planting coastal wildflowers, tiny bit of guerilla gardening with simple cornfield annuals mix, and very
28 January 2019
BY:
Claire Hector
Sandown Bay… shortlisted for Best British Beach 2019 Award by BBC Countryfile Magazine! Votes needed….
18 January 2019
BY:
Claire Hector
‘Life is everywhere and you have a relationship with this living world, even in the most developed space.’ Listen in to find out more – Podcast interview with Ian Boyd by Joe Redston
31 October 2018
BY:
Claire Hector
Our free community celebration, The Christmas Garden brings light, music and spirit to the Bay’s cliff-top gardens again for 2018, thanks to The Common Space & Ventnor Exchange.
18 October 2018
BY:
Claire Hector
Island wildlife from past to present, from fossils to live moths and the most microscopic, was supersized into brilliant focus by the Discovery Bay team for National Biology Week… here’s an update on the latest of our science & nature calendar events for 2018.
2 August 2018
BY:
Claire Hector
It’s National Marine Week this week and so perfect timing for the start of the latest Discovery Bay research project which got under way today. Our two latest work experience students, Christ the King A-level pupils, Lizzie and Alanah met us out on Horse Ledge, Shanklin at low tide early this morning starting with Rockpool
25 June 2018
BY:
Claire Hector
In celebration of National Insect Week 2018 and to show just how precision-tuned insects are, here’s a film we made earlier… The team here, Arc and Artecology and The Common Space too, work to ensure that built infrastructure and the space in and around it can and does support wildlife/biodiversity. Even the smallest of spaces
24 May 2018
BY:
Claire Hector
A spot of punctuated intervention in the public realm and the wildlife’s flying in! Spring update on the Lost Duver meadows.
10 May 2018
BY:
Claire Hector
You couldn’t see a hand in front of your face and as you can see, we started off a bit bleary, but the magic was definitely there for our Dawn Chorus Magic walk last week! One by one, as if answering to a roll-call (okay, the nightingales were a no-show), each bird species piped up,