York Cares

By Emma Hudson

Last week was a busy week for both staff and volunteers on the Heslington East campus as they have been planting both marginal reeds and Tansy plants. 

Closely working with York Cares we ventured into the lake with our wellies on to make a corridor of 500 Norfolk reed plants which will encourage and protect wildlife within the lake. 

At the edge of the water the volunteers dug more holes and planted over 500 Tansy plants to give the endangered Tansy beetle the necessary habitat to hopefully breed and flourish here on the University of York estate.

York Cares and the many volunteers from Aviva, Benenden Health, City of York Council, Nestle and the University of York and with the support of St Nicks made the planting a major success.

The other project undertaken involved removing the plastic protection that had been placed around the many trees that make up some of the Diamond wood on Kimberlow hill. The volunteers from Benenden Health and the University removed 4,670 tree guards which will now be taken away to be recycled.

A massive thank you to everyone that celebrated and took part!

For more information about York Cares and how to get involved click on the link https://www.yorkcares.co.uk/

To learn more about the Tansy beetle click on the link https://www.ywt.org.uk/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/beetles/tansy-beetle