Day 1 - Nature walk through Wilmorton Recreation Ground
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Living Landscapes Officer, Alex, taking everyone for a discovery walk around Wilmorton Recreation Ground in an urban area of Derby. Everyone found three different types of leaves from the surrounding trees and used their own words to describe their shape, colour and features. Alex guided everyone on how to identify trees using these features, for example, toothed and lobed leaves. Everyone had a chat about ways park managers can maintain urban parks both for public use and to conserve local species. Examples were keeping some areas of long grass for wild flowers to grow, and by creating corridors for wildlife to move from one green space to another through the urban environment.