The rise and fall of the rivers of Mars Sanjeev Gupta, Professor of Earth Sciences, Imperial College, London NASA Perseverance Mars mission

The rise and fall of the rivers of Mars Sanjeev Gupta, Professor of Earth Sciences, Imperial College, London NASA Perseverance Mars mission 8pm, Wednesday 15 September 2021 Professor Sanjeev Gupta hit the news by helping to land NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars from his room above a hairdresser’s in Ladywell. Normally, he would have been […]

Wild Swimming – a Personal View

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Christopher Woodward, Director of the Garden Museum There has been rising interest in wild swimming. People speak of the health benefits as well as how to prepare and awareness of the legalities. In his talk for QWAG, Christopher will give his personal view of wild swimming. He will also recount his 50-mile fundraising swim from […]

Nature’s Recovery in Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham

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How are the boroughs preparing their Local Nature Recovery Strategies? The government is consulting on its Nature Recovery Green Paper.  Boroughs will also soon start to help prepare Local Nature Recovery  Strategies. Ahead of the global biodiversity summit (COP15) in spring 2022 the  government is consulting on how to restore nature in the UK. Later […]

Amazing eels! Overcoming the barriers they face

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Community Eels Project Officer, Thames21 Eels are amazing, but they face immense struggles. Since the 1980s European eels (Anguilla anguilla) have declined by over 90 per cent. A main threat eels face is man-made physical obstacles in rivers. Having migrated over 3,000 miles to London from the Sargasso Sea the last thing eels need is to hit barriers […]

Deluge! The 1968 Great Flood and reducing flood risk today

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Lewisham is London borough of culture 2022. 54 years ago much of the borough was hit by the Great Flood of 1968. Join QWAG’s July meeting for amazing pictures and fascinating recollections gathered from people across the borough - from central Lewisham, Ladywell and Catford, to Downham, Lee Green, and Grove Park. All of this […]

Wednesday 18 January, 7.45pm (ONLINE) Green Lewisham: Our Treasured Open Spaces With Candy Blackham

Candy Blackham, writes extensively about parks and gardens in Greenwich and Lewisham, across London, the UK and overseas. Candy’s lockdown visits to green spaces across Lewisham borough led to her book Green Lewisham: Our Treasured Open Spaces (Clink Street Publishing), which has already sold out one print run. As QWAG provided some advice on the book, […]

Saturday 25 February – Get to know your local river

Grassy area, junction of Winn Road and Mottingham Lane Mottingham Lane

INVITATION to residents in the Horn Park, Mottingham Lane, Dutch House area. You may know the River Quaggy flows nearby, but how much do you really know about the river, its condition, wildlife, and how it can be improved? A new local project aims to make more of the river as a local asset. - […]

Sunday 26th February – Get to know your local river

Grassy area, junction of Winn Road and Mottingham Lane Mottingham Lane

INVITATION to residents in the Horn Park, Mottingham Lane, Dutch House area. You may know the River Quaggy flows nearby, but how much do you really know about the river, its condition, wildlife, and how it can be improved? A new local project aims to make more of the river as a local asset. - […]

Wednesday 15 March (ONLINE) – QWAG AGM + The Thames, Wetlands and Aquatic Plants

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QWAG AGM + The Thames, Wetlands and Aquatic Plants (online) Wednesday 15 March 2023 7.45pm: AGM. 8.30pm: Guest speaker - Dr Mark A. Spencer F.L.S Forensic Botanist and Hon. Curator (Plants), Linnean Society of London Layers of plants at the Thames Road Wetland, Bexley – an important site which hosts a diversity of wetland plants […]

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 7.45pm (ONLINE)

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Our Amazing Vanishing Front Gardens Wednesday 17 May 2023, 7.45pm (ONLINE) The costs of losing the most local of green spaces Christine Eborall, Ealing Front Gardens Project In November 2022 even the National Infrastructure Commission reported on rising flood risk from “The spread of impermeable surfaces - such as the paving over of gardens…” Front […]

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