Save Hoylake's Green Beach

07/02/2024

At WWT, we champion wetlands 365 days a year. But on 2 February, the world comes together to celebrate these super-powered habitats.

07/02/2024

13/10/2022

05/08/2022

The current Wirral Council consultation on Hoylake beach closes next week on the 10th of August.
Anyone can contribute their views/opinions.

Wirral Council is moving forward on developing a new beach management plan for Hoylake and will be engaging with residents, elected members and other stakeholders as part of this process. The work will be carried out in a number of stages. The first stage in the work

20/07/2022

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Good morning ! Please will you help this special beach ? This habitat is so rare in Britain , that Hoylake beach is equivalent to an area of ancient woodland the size of Wiltshire . . .

The developing sand dune and saltmarsh on Hoylake beach has only started to grow after Wirral Council stopped spraying the 2km stretch of beach with herbicide in 2019 . Since then huge numbers of red-listed birds like Linnet have made use of this internationally rare habitat , alongside over 170 different plants , over 20 of which are endangered at regional or national level .

Despite all this Wirral Council are asking the public whether they want to keep it , or whether they want it destroyed . Any loss of this internationally threatened habitat would be unacceptable at best . Please spare a few minutes to complete the consultation questionnaire and ask Wirral Council not to kill nature on this outstanding site !

Below is a photo of young Botanist Joshua Styles who has helped lead the campaign to stop Hoylake being sprayed with herbicide . Please help Josh by taking part here :

https://haveyoursay.wirral.gov.uk/hoylake-beach-information?fbclid=IwAR1BoLo8Ji2Hmj6FbNZ9acDyFXKpk_9tLUVSoogwVm3_UVdoCJKQLRW3FcA&fs=e&s=cl