New ‘Nature Friendly Schools’ to help ‘green’ hundreds of school grounds and bring thousands of children closer to nature
£6.4m funded project to improve children’s wellbeing, learning and care for the environment.
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New legal protections edge England closer towards wild beaver return
The Wildlife Trusts welcome new legislation and call for sensible beaver management guidance
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Volunteer to help wildlife in your local area. Volunteering opportunities range from community gardening, species surveying, caring for nature reserves, dry stone walling, hedge laying, habitat management, to running Wildlife Watch groups. You could volunteer organisational, IT, administrative or financial skills too. Both regular and casual volunteers are needed.
Learning to nurture nature
Fiona Groves, education and learning policy manager, reveals why a Natural History GCSE could bring young people closer to nature.
Lower Test Nature Reserve
This link will open on the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust website.
Just a stone's throw from Southampton Water and the docks, Lower Test is a patchwork of floodplain meadows, marshes and reedbeds that host a huge variety of wildlife.
Photography Workshop ‘Close-Up & Macro Nature Photography’ with Daniel Bridge
This link will open on the Essex Wildlife Trust website.
Daniel Bridge is running another one-day workshop dealing with the fascinating subject of Close-up and Macro Nature Photography.
Photography Workshop ‘Close-Up & Macro Nature Photography’ with Daniel Bridge
This link will open on the Essex Wildlife Trust website.
Daniel Bridge is running another one-day workshop dealing with the fascinating subject of Close-up and Macro Nature Photography.
Photography Workshop ‘Close-Up & Macro Nature Photography’ with Daniel Bridge
This link will open on the Essex Wildlife Trust website.
Daniel Bridge is running another one-day workshop dealing with the fascinating subject of Close-up and Macro Nature Photography.
Red clover
A familiar 'weed' of gardens, roadsides, meadows and parks, red clover has trefoil leaves and red, rounded flower heads. It is often used as fodder for livestock.
Close Sartfield - Closed owing to storm damage (ASSI & Ramsar Site)
This link will open on the Isle of Man Wildlife Trust website.
**Please note that Close Sartfield is closed to all after Storm Éowyn**
Excellent for the outstanding display of thousands of orchids from late May to July and good for bird watching.
…White clover
A familiar 'weed' of gardens, roadsides, meadows and parks, White clover is famous for its trefoil leaves - look out for a lucky four-leaf clover in your own garden!
Close e Quayle
This link will open on the Isle of Man Wildlife Trust website.
This nature reserve is a mosaic of grassland, curragh and open meadow producing a diversity of species, where butterflies, beetles and spiders abound.