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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 5h

.@Hillingdon lead a regular walk from #WestDrayton including Harmondsworth Moor & Saxon Lake. Join them at 11am this Saturday 18th October to enjoy a walk around beautiful open & green spaces, starts at West Drayton Library car park #DiscoverHillingdon www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/events/led-w...

Led Walk: West Drayton - Colne Valley Regional Park

Saturday 18 Oct 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm - Hillingdon Council organise a regular led walk from West Drayton to Harmondsworth Moor and Saxon Lake, which you would be very welcome to join, it starts a...

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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 4d

Beautiful countryside is essential to #MentalHealth and well-being. The Colne Valley Regional Park is a fantastic resource for 3m people living on the edge of #London but if it is to be preserved for the future we need your help.
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#worldmentalhealthday

Your Countryside in Crisis – a call for action! - Colne Valley Regional Park

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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 4d

That canal side stroll was as good an antidote to the workday blues…for I had beaten off urban stresses in their own territory.
The unofficial countryside, Richard Maybey, 1973
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#ConnectWithNature #worldmentalhealthday @CanalRiverTrust

Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 4d

'There is still an awful lot left and that’s what we’ve got to fight to save'. RIP Dr Jane Goodall, a true champion of nature and the natural world
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Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 4d

Everything seems more possible after a walk: fresh air, a relief from stress, endorphins. You can breathe again. We’re so lucky to have interesting and beautiful places to walk on our doorstep. #worldmentalhealthday
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#getwalking #westlondonwalks

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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 4d

Floating Pennywort poses a continuous threat to our waterways, starving them of oxygen & choking drainage systems. It’s a shocker - it can grow up to 20cm a day & regenerate from a small fragment. Until 2014, this horribly invasive plant was still on sale
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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 4d

This small group of #volunteers from @awscloud.bsky.social worked really hard all day along a section of the Colne River on Harmondsworth Moor to remove invasive floating pennywort.
Day organised by the Colne Valley Green Team @gwksouth.bsky.social @groundworkuk.bsky.social
#AmazonInCommunities

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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 5d

We continue to make the case to government and councils that if your community is being asked to host so much development, that the proceeds are used to create one of the best green corridors round any city in Europe
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Let's create the best green corridor around any city in Europe - Colne Valley Regional Park

The countryside on the edge of large cities is crucially important for both people and wildlife. Recent changes to national planning policy threaten the Colne Valley and other areas like it. Yet with ...

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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 5d

Our response to (yet another) huge data centre proposed in the Green Belt. All of these are considered in isolation with no masterplan for the cumulative impact or a strategy to protect and improve important green corridors for people and wildlife
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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 5d

The Government simply must enforce its ‘brownfield first’ policies.

Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 5d

It’s not ‘blockers’ or ‘bats and newts’ that are stopping much-needed houses being built – it’s housebuilders. They already have permission for 770,000 homes, but instead of getting on with the job they want to build on Green Belt first. @theguardian.com
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Almost 1.5m homes could be built on brownfield sites in England, report finds

Exclusive: CPRE study suggests housebuilding targets can be met without encroaching on green belt land

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Will Jobbins @will-j.bsky.social · 7d

A water rail - swimming! At @maplelodgereserve.bsky.social on Saturday.

#birding #birds #ukwildlife #wildlife @colnevalley.bsky.social

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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 9d

So happy to see what a success Robin has made of the new version of the water ski club.

Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 9d

Excellent inspiring day spent with the Trustees and the Colne Valley Park team at #Denham Waterski Club on Thursday; brainstorming on how we can better protect, promote and enhance the Regional Park. Many thanks to Robin for his excellent hospitality.

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Will Jobbins @will-j.bsky.social · 13d

Always lovely to spend an afternoon with the kingfishers at @maplelodgereserve.bsky.social. This female was out fishing immediately after the rain on Sunday.

Plus bonus migrant hawker dragonfly pic.

#birdwatching #ukbirding #kingfisher #dragonfly #odonata @colnevalley.bsky.social

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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 14d

Stunning sky this morning. Glorious walking along the Grand Union Canal to #Denham country park past Frayes meadow. A reminder of how lucky we are to have the Colne Valley Regional Park.

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Maple Lodge Nature Reserve @maplelodgereserve.bsky.social · 14d

Nuthatch at the reserve yesterday. Photo by @maplelodgereserve.bsky.social member, Iain Nibbsy.

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Close-up photograph of a Nuthatch on a tree in a typical Nuthatch pose.

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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 14d

They also cut back vegetation from one of the lagoon viewing platforms which had become completely engulfed. A big thank you to these hard working #volunteers.
Day organised by the Colne Valley Park Green Team @gwksouth.bsky.social @groundworkuk.bsky.social

Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 14d

Great work from these #volunteers from @heathrow.com who spent the morning at Arthur Jacob Nature Reserve in #Horton near #Windsor cutting back overgrown vegetation from around the site’s footpaths to help improve accessibility to reserve users.

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ColneCAN @colnecan.bsky.social · 14d

@gwksouth.bsky.social are looking for an enthusiastic Rivers Project Officer to deliver a variety of river enhancement, monitoring and citizen science-based community engagement across the Colne Catchment. Last chance to apply! Expires today.
#recruiting
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Rivers Project Officer - Colne Valley Regional Park

We are looking for an enthusiastic Rivers Project Officer to deliver a variety of river enhancement, monitoring and citizen science-based community engagement across the Colne Catchment. Summary of ro...

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ColneCAN @colnecan.bsky.social · 15d

Nicky from @gwksouth.bsky.social spent a Saturday morning at Willowbank in #NewDenham with Malcolm and his #volunteer friends recently and was impressed by their #Riverfly monitoring skills and set up, thank you Roger @goldcrest10.bsky.social for the photos. @riverflies.bsky.social

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Paul Frost @frostybirding.bsky.social · Sep 10

Kingfisher, Chiffchaff and Reed Warbler from a visit to Maple Lodge yesterday. #birds #ukbirding #hertsbirds #londonbirds

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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 15d

This #Colnbrook Community Cleanup was organised by Cllr Puja Bedi & the Slough Anti litter society.

Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you to everyone who was generous enough to give up their Saturday morning to Clean Up #Colnbrook #Slough. These are some of the amazing #volunteers. They had a big impact. The local residents and wildlife have a lot to thank them for.

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Colne Valley Regional Park @colnevalley.bsky.social · 18d

Productive meeting with @buckscouncil.bsky.social councillors in #Denham this afternoon and joined by @joymorrissey MP on Teams. Exciting to progress opportunities to protect & enhance the Colne Valley Regional Park. Thank you everyone for making the time for this.