As part of their project 'Bringing Aggregate Sites to Life' Buglife, a UK conservation charity looking specifically at potential for invertebrate conservation, have published Managing Aggregates Sites for Invertebrates - a best practice guide. The project developed to make sure sites are restored and managed to conserve their wildlife. Quarries and other extraction sites have become increasingly important habitats for rare and threatened invertebrates as much of the wider landscape has become impoverished of wildlife.

Published in March 2008, Managing Aggregates Sites for Invertebrates - a best practice guide, is the first dedicated guidance on how to manage aggregates sites for invertebrates.


This best practice guide is aimed at all stakeholders in the aggregates industry, including: minerals planners, restoration or estates managers from industry, ecological consultants, statutory bodies and non-governmental organisations.

For more information, to request a hard copy or to download an electronic copy of the guidance, see the project website . A leaflet is available here.

The BLRS are proud to announce the AGM and Spring site visit:

Regeneration of the Irwell Valley and the East Lancashire Railway.

Wednesday 30th April, Bury.

As well as the AGM, two sessions will introduce the Irwell Valley regeneration, which has been creating a green artery from the centre of Manchester to the West Pennine Moors, and the regeneration of the East Lancashire Railway, the opening of which in 1991 and developments since have provided the East Lancashire Preservation Society with a number of environmental awards.

The afternoon will see a buffet lunch served aboard a train on the East Lancashire Light Railway, and a trip up the scenic Irwell Valley and the chance to see a number of regeneration projects including Burrs Country Park and other reclaimed sites.

Recent changes in best practice guidance and standards have led to increasing awareness of the need to understand more about soil as an important resource that is integral to a sustainable environment. The role of soil within our developed landscape is diverse from supporting the green infrastructure where we live, work and play to sustaining biodiversity, from impacting on surface drainage and erosion to providing a valuable carbon store.

From supporting the gardens and parks in which we spend our leisure time to sustaining biodiversity, providing surface drainage, erosion control and a valuable carbon store, soil has a huge impact on the environment in which we live.

In March 2008, Envirolink Northwest, together with sponsors WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) and the IPSS (Institute of Professional Soil Scientists), is holding \'Soils in the Developed Landscape\', at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool.

Soils in the Developed Landscape aims to provide an overview of recent changes in standards and best practice guidance. This event offers a wide range of professionals, including landscape architects, landscape contractors, compost and soil suppliers, soil scientists, the recycling and waste sector, environmental managers, local authorities, ecologists, house builders and those involved in regeneration, the opportunity to understand how to make the most of the soil resource.

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