Welcome to Oxford Urban Wildlife Group

Oxford Urban Wildlife Group was started over 21 years ago and has played a significant role in attracting and conserving wildlife in Oxford. Some of the achievements include converting disused allotments in East Oxford into a Nature Park. This was launched in 1990 and in 1991 won a coveted OSCA award. Other awards followed and the park is now open to school groups, leisure groups and many local people who drop in on open days.

From the beginning we held walks and talks on a wide variety of topics and later produced a booklet: 'Discovering Oxford's Green Places'.

Surveys

Each summer we survey some ofOxford's green areas with a view to monitoring change and recording areas of special interest to ensure that future development would not be detrimental to wildlife. We have been able to put the information to good use, for example in supporting the case for not developing the Trap Grounds, or building a golf course at Horspath and we also intervened to stop the felling of trees along the A40. Currently we are following the progress of the campaign to register the Warneford Meadow and Oxpens Meadow into Town Greens.