by Qwag | Apr 16, 2015 | 2013
The Quaggy joins cast of award-winning film The River Quaggy is featured in Lost Rivers, a film about the treatment and revival of our urban rivers. We were filmed by the Canadian crew in Sutcliffe Park in 2011 – and then forgot about it. Then in we heard that...
by Qwag | Apr 16, 2015 | 2012
QWAG’s 4 films tell the story of the Quaggy QWAG has made 4 unique films showing what it’s like to walk through the Quaggy. The films capture where the river has been improved and where it still needs help. In film 1 we walk underground, beneath the vast Police...
by Qwag | Apr 16, 2015 | 2011
QWAG returns to the site of its first major river restoration It’s not so long ago that if you visited Sutcliffe Park you would never know there was a river running through it. The restoration of the River Quaggy in Sutcliffe Park – on the Greenwich/Lewisham...
by Qwag | Apr 8, 2015 | 2011
Sadly, this autumn has seen the departure of Chris McGaw, who has managed the Lewisham Rivers and People project since its inception two and a half years ago. In that time, Chris has led umpteen walks all over Lewisham and shown us many features of the natural world...
by Qwag | Apr 8, 2015 | 2011
Sutcliffe Park bird list Park Ranger, John Beckham, visits Sutcliffe Park from time to time as part of his duties. During 2010 and 2011 John recorded an impressive list of 38 bird species he saw (and/or heard) in the park. A significant number are birds associated...
by Qwag | Apr 8, 2015 | 2011
Pipistrelles – Creekside to Sutcliffe Park Night Sight Illusive creatures, bats. As night specialists, they’re difficult or downright impossible to see. But using electronic detectors we can now identify individual species – and get an idea of their...
by Qwag | Apr 8, 2015 | 2011
Knotweed burgeoning on the far side of the Quaggy where the bridge connects to Longhurst Road A year’s delay likely A large colony of Japanese knotweed is delaying Manor Park’s third entrance – the bridge over the Quaggy, linking the park to...
by Qwag | Apr 8, 2015 | 2011
But where exactly? An epic 8-stage trek along the Meridian Line from Greenwich Peninsula to Peacehaven, Sussex, got underway on Saturday 7th May. Researched and led by master route plotter and QWAG member, Ralph Palfrey, the first 8.7mile leg follows the Line, with...
by Qwag | Apr 8, 2015 | 2011
Biodiversity experts back QWAG in fight against alien invaders Himalayan Balsam Blitz! Community groups like QWAG are vital to warding off alien invaders such as Himalayan Balsam, in a bid to improve local biodiversity, experts told a major London conference in May....
by Qwag | Apr 8, 2015 | 2011
Re-populating our poplar Local botanist Nick Bertrand suspected a row of trees lining the River Ravensbourne in Ladywell Fields (the Middle Field) were rare native Water Poplars, Populus nigra subspecies betulifolia. Following DNA analysis, so they proved to be....
