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Explore your Colne Valley Park – Summer 2024 edition is ready!

Welcome to our Summer newsletter with details of the challenges of protecting the Park and the local rivers and lots more, project updates, events, local walks and why you should get involved with your Colne Valley Park this Summer! Collect a copy from our Riverside café at the Visitor Centre in Denham Country Park or take a break and read the latest edition online here.
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Green Belt: Why it matters

We take a closer look at the Green Belt and try to explain more about the crucially important role it plays in maintaining a balance between the environment in which we live, and the containment and management of urban development.

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Thank you to the Colne Valley Volunteers

We’d like to take the opportunity to say a huge thank you to the Colne Valley Volunteers as well as all the other amazing volunteer groups helping to look after our beautiful regional park!
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Ducking and Diving in the Colne Valley

The wetland resource of the Colne Valley: a re-assessment of its importance to nature conservation, with special reference to waterbirds, is a survey commissioned in 2023 to look at water bird populations compared to those recorded in 2008.
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How can national planning policy be adapted to improve and restore the green belt?

Our President Lord Randall chaired a workshop focusing on how national planning policy can be adapted to help improve and restore the countryside on the edge of major cities.
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Donate Now to Support our ‘Countryside in Crisis’ Campaign

Exciting news! Give to our charity appeal this week and Big Give’s Green Match Fund will DOUBLE your donation.
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Trees planted at Iver Environment Centre thanks to Bosch

Iver Environment Centre and Colne Valley Regional Park were delighted to host visitors from Bosch UK last month to carry out tree surveys and maintenance on some new saplings which were planted in the playground and to make a new maze.
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Gladwins Wood

The Colne Valley Regional Park is horrified at the destruction of Gladwins Wood in Denham, located between Tatling End and Rush Green part of a network of irreplaceable ancient woodlands between Denham, Gerrards Cross, Chalfont St Peter and Maple Cross.