History
Created in 1980, by Chris Baines and others, it was formerly known as the Urban Wildlife Group, and then the Urban Wildlife Trust, the United Kingdom's first urban Wildlife Trust. It was responsible for the first ever International Dawn Chorus Day event, held at Moseley Bog in 1984. In the mid-1980s it established Plants Brook Nature Reserve in Birmingham.
The Trust was the first UK Wildlife Trust to become a member of Countdown 2010 the European initiative to halt the decline in biodiversity by 2010.
Black Country Living Landscape is a major initiative of the Trust that aims to be the first practical application of the principles of landscape scale conservation to an urban area.
Read more about this topic: Wildlife Trust For Birmingham And The Black Country
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