kim - project ecologist for olympic park:hi! my name is kim, i'm the project ecologist for the olympic park,and i'm going to showyou a few items around the site, i spend a lot of my time going out and about lookingafter the park - so come along with me. ok this is one of the rivers in the olympicpark site, we've done a number of species translocations from the waterways. they weretaken to the waterworks nature reserve where
Olympic Park, again, we've created artificial ponds forthese species. we've cleaned up the waterways, there havebeen invasive species such as japanese knot weeds , floating penny-wart, so we've actuallybeen treating the waterways and remediating the areas to make it a more clean and pleasantenvironment.
we're in the north park and this will be thewarm up zone in the olympics, we're standing in front of a retained tree which is calleda london plane. the trees have been on site for potentially up to a hundred years, andit's important that we maintain as many habitats and trees as possible, where feasible, andwhere the project allows. we're at one of the nurseries that we've plantedon site, and this contains material from cuttings from species that may well have had to ofbeen lost throughout the site such as crack willow, white willow, and then these speciescan then be replanted as part of the landscaping works. so all the hard work we've been doing overthe last few years - i know the next few years
will benefit all the generations to come andall communities that live around here.
kim - project ecologist for olympic park:hi! my name is kim, i'm the project ecologist for the olympic park,and i'm going to showyou a few items around the site, i spend a lot of my time going out and about lookingafter the park - so come along with me. ok this is one of the rivers in the olympicpark site, we've done a number of species translocations from the waterways. they weretaken to the waterworks nature reserve where
Olympic Park, again, we've created artificial ponds forthese species. we've cleaned up the waterways, there havebeen invasive species such as japanese knot weeds , floating penny-wart, so we've actuallybeen treating the waterways and remediating the areas to make it a more clean and pleasantenvironment.
we're in the north park and this will be thewarm up zone in the olympics, we're standing in front of a retained tree which is calleda london plane. the trees have been on site for potentially up to a hundred years, andit's important that we maintain as many habitats and trees as possible, where feasible, andwhere the project allows. we're at one of the nurseries that we've plantedon site, and this contains material from cuttings from species that may well have had to ofbeen lost throughout the site such as crack willow, white willow, and then these speciescan then be replanted as part of the landscaping works. so all the hard work we've been doing overthe last few years - i know the next few years
will benefit all the generations to come andall communities that live around here.