The Society's Study Area

Did You Know?


• More than 40% of London is green space or open water.
• 2000 species of flowering plant have been found growing
  in the LNHS area.
• The tidal Thames supports 120 species of fish.
• Over 60 species of bird nest in central London.
• LNHS members have recorded 47 species of butterfly,
  1173 moths and more than 270 kinds of spider around London.
• London's wetland areas support nationally important populations of many water birds.
• London has 38 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs),
  including two National Nature Reserves and 76 Local Nature Reserves.

One of the World's Greenest Cities

• The LNHS study area consists of a circle of radius 20 miles (32km) from St Pauls Cathedral.
• This encompasses the whole of the Greater London (GLA) adminstrative area, and parts of the surrounding counties, extending well beyond the M25 in many places.
• Habitats available for study range from inner city streets and brownfield sites to farmland, lowland heath, chalk downland and the wetlands of the Lea Valley and Thames estuary.
• We are fortunate that such a variety of habitat types are represented in our area.
  

  
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• London's HABITATS
• RECORDING AND MAPPING London's wildlife.
  
  

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