Enjoy a gentle cycle alongside the waterways for a beautiful adventure amongst nature. You'll find all the info you need, on our page.

Cant wait to work with partners to understand how Northern Urban places will step up to this agenda...Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and Leeds all have amazing oppurtunity around this and doing some great things already that can be made even better

Great news coming from National Trust yesterday for their 125th Anniversary: theguardian.com/environment/20…

Job opportunity to support #AgeFriendlyGM

Attended #GHIA_VNN event at #whitworthgallery. Was particularly impressed by GHIA online extract&value tool for mapping out residents’ valuation of local #greenspace within #GreaterManchester. Straightforward and easy for public engagement. #morethanminutes adds extra credit!

It's #HeritageTreasures day 2020! Some of our favourite heritage includes Chat Moss in Greater Manchester: a precious remnant of lowland raised bog which we're restoring with vital funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thank you The National Lottery Heritage Fund 💚

#SaturdayStats - January is the middle of the dormant season when bare rooted deciduous trees and shrubs can be planted

Presentations & More Than Minutes from our end-of-project event now on ghia.org.uk. See our findings, recommendations & research deep-dives 👀. Links to our final report for research users also provided Natural Environment Research Council Economic and Social Research Council Arts and Humanities Research Council Valuing Nature MICRA Ageing Network

Thanks Becca Taylor, PhD for chatting to Helen Mark @BBCR4OC, & representing findings of GHIA_VNN project & the relevance to Save RyeBank Fields 🍃💚🍃. Increasingly people have to live and age in urban spaces. Large institutions have a civic responsibility to care for nature and people.

⁦Jack Benton⁩ presenting the MOHAWk tool for ⁦Valuing Nature⁩ at their Business Impact Conference. Great to see emerging results from the next case study using the tool!

Any patch of outside space - however small - can be transformed and made wildlife-friendly. Take a look at this new guide and create your own little patch of magic. Great suggestions for people in flats as well as houses 💚💚💚

Another important reminder of the value of urban nature from our team:

Are you still wondering about the specific ways that aspects of biodiversity are connected to human health? The wait is over. UK Urban Ecology Forum Street Trees for Living @EPRGManchester ipbes The RHS UoM_MERI Town & Country Planning Association GM Green City Green Infrastructure Scotland

Well done us! Click here to see STFL winning the Community Tree Award at the #treeoscars yesterday! m.youtube.com/watch?index=4&…

I would fail a masters student for this.

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2021 we choose to challenge

Back in 2019 we launched our value tool to collect perspectives on why parks, gardens, rivers, trees in GM matter for our wellbeing 💚We’re now looking to gather more info & see what’s changed. Can you help by providing your view? maps.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/ghia-web/value/ (best on large screen)

There is still chance to share your views about what GM’s parks, gardens and other natural spaces bring for your health and well-being @parks_great 💚🏡🌳🌻 You can also see a map of what others across GM thought too.

Today at 1.00pm two vans with four ride on grass cutters from TII Traffic cut down approx 400 sq meters of wild meadow at Nine Mile Stone Ashbourne, not one inch of it posed a road safety issue. Pure environmental vandalism. PLEASE RETWEET. Biodiversity Ireland #Ashbourne #Meath

Last week, The Climate Museum hosted an interdisciplinary panel of experts to examine the health impacts of climate and inequality and to discuss measures to achieve climate justice and thereby advance public health. 💚 Take a look 👇👀 youtube.com/watch?v=bLeNsZ…