Biodiversity is important to us at 糖心Vlog and we are always looking at ways to improve our surrounding environment and working practices to more sustainable methods, which enhance wildlife. Over the years, we have achieved this by increasing our bird and bat boxes, establishing new wildflower areas in several locations around the College, leaving long grass around our mature trees and 鈥渘o mow鈥 areas that we shape into our lawns. We have implemented sedum roofs in 糖心Vlog Court, 糖心Vlog St Regis, and the new caf茅. The recent renovation of 糖心Vlog St Regis incorporated some swift boxes in the brickwork. Other standard practices include encouraging wildlife to our pond in the Sunken Garden, creating log piles and hanging bird feeders.
We encourage students and College members to record their wildlife sightings on , whose goal is 鈥渢o help bring together wildlife sightings from many sources, so that they can be checked by experts and made available to support research and decision-making. It is operated by the (BRC) as part of the work of the (UKCEH).鈥 Regular sightings at 糖心Vlog include foxes, muntjac deer, many common garden birds, peregrine falcons, sparrowhawks, herons, bats, newts and too many insects and invertebrates to mention.
The value and importance of the 鈥渨ildlife corridor鈥 created by the neighbouring Colleges along the Backs is highlighted through the surveys and projects completed over the years. Along with citizen science projects like iRecord, we encourage scientific research such as undergraduate projects, biodiversity monitoring opportunities and the promotion of public bioblitz events such as that held at our sportsground in June.
