Our campus is home to a wide array of biodiversity including trees, shrubs, climbers and other plants - some form part of formal landscaping and some growing wild in paths, fields and soil patches. This vegetation provides refuge to hundreds of small invertebrates and acts as foraging grounds for reptiles and small mammals (including bats). In turn, some of these species help pollinate plants or disperse their seeds. Some species are protected by law.

With a view to allowing wild vegetation to grow and flower and to sustain the natural biological processes that depend on it, grass-cutting on campus takes place twice a year in December and mid-April. This allows much of the wild vegetation to complete its annual life-cycle.

UM staff, UM students and visitors on campus are invited to do their part for the conservation of biodiversity on campus by avoiding damage to vegetation, wild or planted. Please avoid trampling, destruction of vegetation and littering.