Redland Green Community Group

HELPING TO PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN REDLAND GREEN FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF ALL

Welcome to our website. We are a group of local residents in Redland, Bristol who love Redland Green and who do lots of things to improve the Green as an urban wildlife refuge and to make it a lovely place for people to be.

If you also love the Green, get in touch!  Here for an enquiry, or here to join our mailing list - you'll be notified of our events and activities. 

See forthcoming and past events throughout 2024

... and you can read about what we've done in past years as well as the current year by visiting our archive.

Winter '23/'24 update

The extremely wet winter weather meant that many of our usual winter activities were rather late in happening. However, just in the nick of time, members of the group surveyed and cleaned out our 21 bird nesting boxes, strimmed and re-seeded our summer-flowering wildflower meadow near the Cossins Road entrance, carried out some litter picks and dug out some intruding brambles along the Metford Road allotments palisade fence. We've also planted primroses in various places around the green, and, as an experiment, some hellebores to brighten up the area by the Redland church wall below the yew trees. It may be that this area is too dark or too dry, but next winter will tell whether the hellebores can tolerate such conditions.

An update on the use of our bird boxes in 2023 will be available shortly, here.

We are fortunate to have a wide variety of birds in and around the Green: from sparrowhawks, great spotted woodpeckers and nuthatch to winter visitors and a wide variety of garden birds. Find out more about our bird nesting boxes and see some lovely bird photos taken in Redland Green by local photographer, Michael Owen, who has also been out and about with his camera, capturing winter visitors and taking early spring shots.

If you see evidence of birds using any of our nesting boxes, please email birds@rgcg.org.uk with details of your sighting.

Redland Green has four veteran and ancient ash trees. 

Read about how we nearly lost them sixteen years ago.

The eminent naturalist, the late Richard Bland was an invited speaker at one of RGCG's earliest meetings. He outlined actions we could take to improve the biodiversity of the Green. Most of those we have acted upon, and will continue to strive to keep Redland Green a beautiful place for all and an urban wildlife hotspot.

Read the BS6 Green Space audit from 2021, an initiative of a local resident and prepared in response to Bristol City Council's Ecological Emergency Action Plan 2021-2025.

Research conducted in 2020 investigated Bristolians' views about climate change and understanding of how Bristol City Council is responding to the climate and ecological emergency.

And.....

Could fossil fuel companies ever be charged with homicide?

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History and Ecology

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