Our Maindee Nature Plan
Take a look at our 2 Maindee Nature Plan documents below to find out what the community wants to see happening in Maindee.
There will be community meetings in early 2026 if you want to get involved.
As part of our Maindee District Centre Renewal project and the Maindee Nature Plan, we have installed some nature friendly sculptures in Maindee car park....72 new apartments for our starling friends.
Habitats for Communal Living
Originally made for a public art commission for Art Across the City, Swansea, Nick Jordan’s bird houses are customised hand painted versions of purple martin houses, which are unique to North America. With no purple martins present in the UK, the bird houses should attract fellow cavity-nesting native species such as swifts and starlings, their European cousins. With UK numbers declining severely, swifts and starlings are on the Red List of conservation concern, and rely heavily on human-provided, high structures for nesting. The bird boxes could also provide useful places for birds to roost.
The artist also made a film, Nature House Inc., which documents the proliferation of birdhouses in the Illinois town where they are manufactured and put out on public display.
Nature House Inc. film:
https://vimeo.com/wurstundgritz/naturehouseinc
Art Across the City installation:
https://www.nickjordan.info/naturehouses-installation.htm
Join Us
If the work we do sounds appealing we would love to hear from you. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never picked up a spade before, we can teach you the basics and more besides. Our volunteers are a very friendly bunch and if you’re looking to find like-minded, welcoming people then you are in the right place.
You can contact John Stone (Greening Maindee Co-ordinator) on 07947 359703.
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