Hedgerow
Hedgerows are one of our most easily encountered wildlife habitats, found lining roads, railways and footpaths, bordering fields and gardens and on the coast.
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How to manage a hedgerow for wildlife
An introduction to the basics of managing hedgerows for wildlife.
Carbon Removals
The Wildlife Trusts are restoring woodlands and peat lands to sequester carbon, enhance biodiversity, and reduce emissions. These projects also offer flood and drought mitigation, public health improvements, increased access to nature, new jobs, and volunteer opportunities.
Carbon Removals Expression of Interest
We welcome new funding partners looking to join us in restoring our woodlands and peat lands at scale, offering high-integrity carbon removals in return.
European hedgehog
Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
Planning applications and wildlife
Development can cause serious harm to wildlife but it does not have to. Development can also deliver valuable biodiversity enhancement. Influencing a planning proposal is as much about promoting positive outcomes as it is about fighting harmful proposals. Information and advice on planning applications.
Great news for Gwent Levels as motorway plans scrapped
The Welsh Government has shown its commitment to a wilder future today, after rejecting plans to build an M4 relief road across the Gwent Levels.
Over Kellet Pond
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Wetland plants, important invertebrates and protected amphibians show why our smallest nature reserve is also one of the most important.
Spring 2020 magazine UK News
Updates from the Wildlife Trusts
Help a hedgehog
What to do if you spot a hedgehog out in daylight, how to check your bonfire for hedgehogs and how to create a hedgehog house in your garden.
Hedgehog
It’s time to invest in the natural world. Time to start replanting the woodlands that have been destroyed and begin connecting up the wetlands, grasslands and meadows that we have cut scars into. Today we must demand better protection for wildlife and wild spaces so that hedgehogs can roam and barn owls can thrive once again.
Adopt a hedgehog
Searching for an original gift for a nature lover? Sponsor a hedgehog with the Wildlife Trusts to help fund conservation efforts. Perfect for adults and children!