Our Disappearing Nature Walk – Dane-in-Shaw Pastures
Hello to all nature enthusiasts! Join us for a new wild plant survey in Dane-in-Shaw Pastures!
🗓 14 June | 1:00pm
📍 Meeting point: Bridge over the canal on Henshall Hall Drive, Congleton (CW12 3TD)
⏱ The walk lasts around 2.5+ hours, but you’re free to leave whenever you need to
As part of the Our Disappearing Nature project, we are launching a new series of walks to help build a database of the wild plants growing in Congleton today.
Our goal is to record current biodiversity and compare it with a historical dataset from 1915, allowing us to understand how the local environment has changed over the past 110 years — which species have disappeared, which have appeared, and what factors have contributed to these changes.
Since the start of this year, we’ve documented 410 species — but a local survey from 1915 listed 461. So, where are the rest? Help us find out!
These events are not guided walks in the traditional sense — they are data-gathering walks — but the good news is that Jack Swan, a renowned naturalist and botanist, will be joining us.
Jack will help lead the walk, assist with data collection, and share fascinating insights along the way.
On our last walk in Astbury, we discovered over 20 plant species that weren’t yet in our database. Our total now stands at 410 recorded species, and we’re hoping to build on that even further in this next outing.
The walk is completely free, but we do ask that you register in advance so that we know how many participants to expect.
We’ll be using the iNaturalist app to record our findings, so please make sure you have it installed on your phone and are registered in it before the walk.
Come along, enjoy some time in nature, and contribute to a unique project documenting Congleton’s biodiversity!