Visitors to a North-East nature reserve will be invited to help create a new habitat for dragonflies.
The World Wetlands Day Wetland Challenge at Washington Wetlands Centre will be held from 10am-3pm on Sunday February 1.
There will be free refreshments for those taking part, while a crafts activities will be staged for children from 1pm to 4pm.
The event forms part of World Wetland Day -- marking the date of the signing of the Convention of Wetlands in Iran in 1971, when governments across the world agreed to conserve and make the best possible use of their valuable wetland resources.
The centre will be open free of charge, as well as on Monday February 2, when Wetlands Programmes Officer Dean Heward will give an illustrated talk on the Ecology and Behaviour of Dragonflies, at 7.30pm.
Everyone visiting the centre can enter a competition to win prizes including a Banrock Station picnic set and family membership to WWT giving them free access to all nine WWT centres nationwide for a year.
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