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Save the Crocus!

Green Business Network is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with Halifax’s oldest natural history society (Halifax Scientific Society, founded 1874) to celebrate 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.

The GBN has awarded a £2,000 Landfill Communities Fund grant for conservation work to protect the autumn-flowering “Halifax” crocus.

The crocus only occurs in the East Midlands, Derbyshire, Lancashire and West Yorkshire, but nowhere is there more of a cluster of colonies than around Halifax, and its larger Parish area which coincides with the Metropolitan area of Calderdale (c.31 colonies).

The plant is still common in its original range of the high pastures of the Alps and Pyrenees, but it is a Calderdale BAP priority species of unimproved grasslands (within living memory, the Halifax autumn crocus fields have become a shadow of their former glory).                                                                                                       

As part of the approaching World Environment Day (5th June), the Halifax Scientific Society has already undertaken practical work to save two riverside colonies, one of which was threatened by bankside erosion due to flooding.

For more information on the Autumn crocus click here.

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