Our first habitat management task of the Autumn/Winter season is taking place on Sunday November 6th, when we will be cutting down Poplar regrowth/suckers on one of the areas of fixed dune at Ainsdale, where a small colony of Sand Lizards is surviving. We will be meeting at 10am. For further details, please contact Mike Brown, on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

Our next habitat management task is taking place at Falklands Way dunes, Ainsdale, on Tuesday 21st November, when we will be clearing scrub and small trees, in order to create a corridor of suitable habitat for lizards, which will link two parts of the site. For further details, please contact Mike Brown, by email, on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

NMARG's next volunteer habitat management event is taking place on Sunday, December 10th, when we will be clearing poplar and Sycamore regrowth/suckers/saplings on a fixed dune site at Ainsdale. For further details, please contact Mike Brown, by email, on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

Our next habitat management volunteer task is taking place on Tuesday, January 9th, when we will be cutting down poplar regrowth and suckers, also some Sea Buckthorn, on Birkdale Corridor. For further details, Please contact Mike Brown, on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

NMARG's final volunteer habitat management task of the current Winter is taking place on Sunday, March 3rd at Big Balls Hill SSSI, Ainsdale, when we will be cutting down poplar and Sea Buckthorn regrowth and suckers. For further details, please contact Mike Brown on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk.

Our next Tuesday volunteer group event is taking place on Tuesday, November 5th, when we will be helping the Green Sefton Rangers to clear an area of Sea Buckthorn and poplar on Falklands Way dunes, Ainsdale, in order to improve the habitat for lizards and other important fauna and flora. The Rangers are hoping to get a big bonfire going, appropriately for the date, in order to burn the brash we generate. We will be meeting at 10am, on Rothwell Drive, off Westminster Drive, Ainsdale. 

All NMARG members are very welcome to come and help with this event. Hand tools (loppers and bow saws) and work gloves are available, if you don't have your own. Please let us know if you are planning to come to this event, by  email to mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk