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22 Aug 2024, 16:35
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Thursday 22nd August 2024
Credit: Sam Moore: The heather in bloom on Stedham Common
I have for the past several years been helping to raise awareness and appreciation of our native temperate rainforest, and because I live right next to the South Downs National Park, here’s something close to my heart and as rare as rainforest.
Lowland Heath. Right now is the best time to appreciate this amazing ecosystem that shimmers with pink and purple in the August and September sunshine. This is what inspired the Heathlands Reunited Project in 2016, uniting 11 organisations led by the South Downs National Park Authority to try to recreate, reconnect and restore the heathland that’s left there.
Now concluded, the five-year project has helped the habitat to bounce back from the brink. It’s worked a treat, as they’ve “conserved and enhanced” 23,825 hectares – or 18,000 football pitches – of lowland heath, home to 12 of 13 native amphibians and reptiles in the UK, and also provides a refuge for other rare, secretive birds such as the Dartford warbler. “Without these refuges” say experts behind the initiative, “some very specialist animals and plants would be lost forever, so it’s really important we all care for our heathlands. This is such a special time of year for heaths, so do get out and capture its beauty if you can on camera.”
Via: positive.news
Credit: English Heritage - The mosaic discovered at Wroxeter
An incredibly well preserved and beautiful 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic probably from Roman baths, has been unearthed by over 20 archeologists during excavations at Wroxeter Roman city, which also uncovered an ancient building and shrine.
It’s a stunning mosaic of fish and other sea life made from green, blue, yellow, and red tiles that’s just been seen for the first time in centuries.
Also discovered was a mausoleum and shrine that may have housed the remains of an early civic leader such as a mayor. According to English Heritage this is “One of the best-preserved examples of a Roman city in Britain, Wroxeter (or Viriconium as it was known) established in the 90s AD, was a thriving city of the Roman Empire, once as large as Pompeii.” “At its height, the city would have contained over two hundred houses, a civic bathhouse, marketplace, county hall and judicial centre.” The sea life mosaics might be the most impressive outside of Tunisia, or Carthage, as the Romans called it.
Via: goodnewsnetwork.org
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