Conservation
Conservation and the NWRC
The North West Reptile Club has always been a supporter of Native Reptilian Conservation, and over the past few years the club has really stepped up to support this.
With the addition of a conservation team to the club, they have organised conservation days with projects across the Northwest of England, where members have gone out to help with general maintenance to conservation areas. The club has also used the money we raise from public events, to purchase equipment and make monetary donations to several projects across the Northwest.
Risley Moss is an area of peat bog situated near Birchwood in Warrington. It is a country park, Site of special scientific interest, and a local nature reserve.
It covers an area of 210.5 acres and is one of the last remaining fragments of the raised bogs that once covered large areas of South Lancashire and North Cheshire. Risley Moss is one of only two mosses in Cheshire where the water level has been deliberately raised in an attempt to encourage the regeneration of an active bog surface. It was the former site of a large Royal Ordnance Factory.
Today, it is managed by Cheshire County Council as a country park and an educational nature reserve.
Over the past few years NWRC has made donations of trail cameras, to help the rangers monitor populations of animals. we have donated forestry equipment, to have maintain the forest and moss area to encourage the animal population to grow. We have also donated our time as a club going to several conservation days, where our members went out into the moss and helped with clearing bushes and maintaining the moss to encourage animals to spread and reproduce across the moss.
Risley Moss Nature Reserve
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