Spent a fab day volunteering with Joshua Styles of the North-west Rare Plant Initiative translocating Papillose Bog-moss (Sphagnum papillosum) to a degraded Lancashire Wildlife Trust bog in Greater Manchester to assist in its restoration #bryophytes #Sphagnum North-West Rare Plant Initiative #peatlands

What’s that? You didn’t know Chester Zoo funded AMAZING, urgent, rare plant conservation work right here in the UK by North-West Rare Plant Initiative & that it’s been recognised and published in CIEEM ? oh catch up 😉 #PreventingExtinction

Great 🧵 on the dire situation.Thu our work Chester Zoo we’ve been supporting North-West Rare Plant Initiative incredible work on the Lancashire Wildlife Trust Manchester Mosslands & at the zoo we have been breeding rare Large Heath butterflies for release on this precious habitat. Go #peatfree for wildlife 🦋🌱🌍

Pretty awesome work here by Josh North-West Rare Plant Initiative this is the kind of direct conservation work in the UK we are so proud to support Chester Zoo Science 🙌🏻👏🏼

Fab to see #TubularWaterDropwort doing so well at this time of year at #RawcliffeMeadows one of @PondRiverStream #FlagshipPonds sites. Find out more about this fascinating urban pond site and TWD bit.ly/RawcliffeFlags…

It's 9 wins for us in this year's BIAZA Awards!🏅

Our work on a diverse set of projects has been recognised as among the best, ranging from long-term lion behavioural monitoring, to using hormones in breeding Omani blind cavefish 🦁🌱🦎🐟

Take a look 👇
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Wigan’s grasslands are so good, that we’ve been targeting some for the reintroduction of long extinct plants like Dyer’s Greenweed and Green-winged Orchid! 🌱❤️

We reintroduced this fantabulous wee beastie to the Cheshire Wildlife Trust Holcroft Moss just over two years ago, and it’s increased by over 8-fold in that time! YAY!

He certainly is a man on a mission and we Chester Zoo & Chester Zoo Science are VERY proud to be supporting Josh’s work through the North-West Rare Plant Initiative it’s one of our key UK field programmes, have a read below 👇 #UKwildlife #Mosslands

There was also a 3-fold increase in plants of Endangered Great Sundew (Drosera anglica) at this secret Cheshire Wildlife Trust managed site after its reintroduction last year! YAY!!

OH MY GOD!!

After >150 years of extinction, reintroduced Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) has seen over a 7-fold increase on this Lancashire Wildlife Trust reserve including lots of young plants and babies!!! YAY!!!🌱❤️

Just turned on the telly and imagine my surprise when the first thing on is Joshua Styles of North-West Rare Plant Initiative on BBC Countryfile spreading the good word about planting native wildflowers! #goals #ecology

Thanks to North-West Rare Plant Initiative & Natural History Museum for this short film of a great sundew - a fascinating carnivorous plant that lives in peat bogs!
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#PeatFree April #Carnivorous #EarthDay #Peatlands #Plants #PeatFree #Environment #UK

Lee Schofield Wild Haweswater Wild Lakeland David Morris North-West Rare Plant Initiative It’s a great feeling when the growing starts again. Globeflower doing best here and 100s montane willow cuttings now potted.

Thanks so much for the invite! T’was a privilege talking about North-West Rare Plant Initiative! ❤️

Back in 2018 Joshua Styles of North-West Rare Plant Initiative reintroduced 60 lesser bladderwort plants onto the Manchester Mosslands. As of 2020's monitoring survey, this population numbers more than 180,000 - an incredible re-establishment! Lancashire Wildlife Trust

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Leading BIAZA Zoos & Aquariums are crucial in conserving our native wildlife 🇬🇧🇮🇪

For us this means working with our partners to
🌱Protect rare plants
🦡 Monitor native fauna
🦋Safeguard wild UK landscapes
🐸 Rear populations for reintroductions

Meet the incredibly rare waved fork moss (with flowing locks to rival an 80s popstar 😎). Only found on two other sites in England, Joshua Styles of the North-West Rare Plant Initiative is trialling its reintroduction onto Astley Moss, making it the rarest plant on the Manchester Mosses! #WilderFuture

The winner of the Best Practice Small Scale Nature Conservation Award is... North West Rare Plant Initiative! A deserving project run by Joshua Styles with Chester Zoo, Lancashire Wildlife Trust and the Wild Flower Society. This award was sponsored by nhbsNews #CIEEMawards

Some gorgeous Bog-rosemary (Andromeda polifolia) from Cheshire Wildlife Trust’s Flaxmere reserve last year 😍🌱