Our next habitat management task is on Sunday, March 11th on the Sefton Coast, when we will be clearing Sea Buckthorn and Poplar regrowth from a site with a small colony of Sand Lizards. For further details, please contact Mike Brown by email on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk 

NMARG's first volunteer habitat management task of the current Autumn-Winter season will take place on the weekend of November 24th and 25th, when we will be clearing scrub and small trees from a fixed dune area near Ainsdale in order to improve the habitat for a small colony of Sand Lizards and encourage their spread into the surrounding area. This task is being organised jointly with the Gems in the Dunes project. Anyone interested in joining us, even if its just for a few hours, please contact Mike Brown by email, on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

Our December habitat management task on the Sefton Coast is taking place on Sunday the16th, when we will be clearing invasive Sea Buckthorn scrub from an area of sand dunes at Ainsdale, to help improve the habitat for Sand Lizards and other important duneland fauna. The task is being organised jointly witht he Gems in the Dunes project. We are hoping to make a nice big bonfire with the Buckthorn we remove! Anyone interested in joining us, please contact Mike Brown, by email, on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

Our next habitat management task is on Sunday, January 13th, when we will be clearing scrub regrowth from the Birkdale dunes. For further details, please contact Mike Brown at mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

Our next January habitat management task is taking place on Sunday 20th at Ainsdale and is being held jointly with the Gems in the Dunes project volunteers. The task will involve the continuation of the clearance of Sea Buckthorn and other scrub and is located close to the.Ainsdale Discovery Centre. For further details, please contact Mike Brown on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

Our next task, again joint with the Gems in the Dunes project, will involve removing scrub from a Natterjack Toad breeding area at a National,Trust site at Formby, which also will benefit the local Sand Lizard population. For further details, please contact Mike Brown on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

Our next habitat management task will take place on Sunday, 17th March, 2019, when we will again be joining forces with the Gems in the Dunes volunteers and staff for some habitat management at a site in Ainsdale where Sand Lizards formerly occurred and we are trying to tempt them back! The task will involve the cutting back of Gorse and the removal of invasive non-native plants on a steep slope. For further details, please contact Mike Brown on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

We will be joining forces with Gems in the Dunes for some sand patch digging, in order to increase the area suitable for female Sand Lizards to lay their eggs in, at a fixed dune site at Ainsdale. There will also be opportunities to observe the lizards, if the weather is suitable. For further details, please contact Mike Brown at mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

Our late Autumn and Winter habitat management tasks on the Sefton Coast gets underway on Saturday, 26th October, when we will be clearing invasive Sea Buckthorn and other scrub at the southern end of the Sefton Coast dune system, for the benefit of Sand Lizards and Natterjack Toads. The task will be joint with the Gems in the Dunes Project. For further details, please contact Mike Brown, by email, on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

Our second habitat management task of the Winter will take place on Sunday, 24th November, 2019, when we will be clearing invasive Sea Buckthorn and other scrub from an inner dune site on the Sefton Coast with a small colony of Merseyside race Sand Lizards. The task will again be together with staff and volunteers from the Gems in the Dunes project. For further details, please contact Mike Brown, by email, at mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk