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Organisation: Ulster Wildlife
Location: Throughout NI
Salary: This position is entirely voluntary and is therefore unpaid
Connecting with the outdoors and each other is important, and our corporate volunteer days offer fantastic team building and staff development opportunities. These days give your staff the chance to take part in important conservation work on our beautiful nature reserves.
Whether it is an informal team-building day or simply the chance for your staff to get together and put something back into the community, we always welcome extra pairs of hands.
We provide the tools, training, and health and safety expertise, so all you have to do is turn up and enjoy the day.
Below are some of the key pieces of work we have coming up that you may be interested in helping out with:
1. Scrub clearance day of pine removal at Ballynahone Bog (near Magherafelt): The Nature Reserves team will fell Scot’s pine and beech. All material to be removed for chipping – September to February.
2. Feystown (Glens of Antrim): Meadow management for Wood Crane’s-bill. Rake and remove cut material from the grassland – September.
3. Milford Cutting (near Armagh): Meadow management – remove cut material from orchid banks – September to February.
4. Bog Meadows, Belfast: Removal of cut woody material from tree-felling areas – September to February (Bags of woodchip mulch for gardens etc. free to participants).
5. Rush control: Raking and removal of cut material to enhance the grassland and provide habitat for nesting waders – September to 15th February.
6. Slievenacloy: Rush control – raking and removing material to increase the floral diversity of the grassland habitats – September to 15th February.
7. Umbra (North coast, near Coleraine): Ragwort control – July to August.
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