Grounds Maintenance, Landscape Creation, Arboriculture, Sports Surfacing, Parks management, IOS Managing Safely Training, Ecology & Biodiversity, Grass cutting, Horticulture, Street Cleaning, Soft Landscaping, Hard Landscaping
idverde provides a wide range of green services, including grounds maintenance, landscape creation, and advice services, to both private and public sectors across the UK.
As we celebrate World Wildlife Conservation Day on December 4th, it’s easy to look at the global picture and forget the positive ways we can care for the wildlife right outside our windows. At idverde, we build nature-based solutions into all our work. That results in some fantastic projects with professional organisations like the RSPB, and with community groups, helping to monitor, manage and protect a huge range of important flora and fauna in our local areas.
We’ve had some fantastic successes in the past few years, engaging communities and individuals and making a significant difference to plant and life species across the UK.
For example, in the London Borough of Bromley, we work alongside Bromley Council, the RSPB and other organisations to manage very diverse areas of landscape. These include six Sites of Special Scientific Interest, and areas that fall within the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
During our time supporting these wonderful spaces, we have worked on several distinct projects that are focused on nature conservation. These included wetland and heathland restoration, managing enhanced surveying and species recording, and increasing the naturalised grassland by 25%.
We’ve worked with local communities on a ‘Brilliant Butterflies’ project, carried out urban bat box surveys and improved the habitat for priority species including the hazel dormouse, European adder and great crested newt.
We’re now working closely with Bromley Council as part of the Bromley Biodiversity Partnership, which is an exciting future-forward plan for local nature-based development plans.
Many of our projects involve protecting species and improving habitats. Earlier this year, we worked with Highways England to rebuild important fish passes on the River Ashburn in Devon – also within a Site of Special Scientific Interest. When completed, these passes allowed salmon, eels and other migrating fish species to move upriver to their spawning grounds.
And we’ve been involved in important projects to help encourage the swift population, which has declined by a huge 58% in the past 25 years alone. Modern buildings do not have the holes, gaps and nooks in the roof and walls that swifts need to nest and breed. As we develop new ways of building, the swifts are left homeless.
So projects like our joint venture with the RSPB in the West Midlands are more important than ever. We have supported community groups to build swift boxes that can be installed at height in local church towers. By engaging with our local communities, we can show why it is crucial to protect swifts and other endangered species, showing that wildlife conservation can – and needs to – happen everywhere, every day.
