16 SUMMER 2015
Building Community Capacity
WETLANDS CREATED BY
STUDENTS OFFICIALLY
OPENED
AYRSHIRE COLLEGE
STUDENTS, WHO HELPED
CREATE LAGOONS AT
DEAN CASTLE COUNTRY
PARK, WERE AT THE
OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE
NEW WETLAND AREA
RECENTLY TO SEE THE
FRUITS OF THEIR LABOUR.
the park in collaboration with
the conservation charity,
Froglife.
Environmental management
students and other volunteers
at the College from sports,
social science and uniformed
services courses dug in last
year to create a new wetland
habitat for the lagoon area of
The opening took place in the
form of a walk-and-talk
around the area. The new
wetland area will help to
attract and support a range of
amphibian and wetland
invertebrate species.
Froglife is a national wildlife
charity committed to the
conservation of amphibians
and reptiles.
“The new wetland
area will help to
attract and support a
range of amphibian
and wetland
invertebrate species.”